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A Guide to the Tuttle Family
Papers and Photographs
Top images, from left:
Picking oranges / William Henry Jackson. 1975-025-137
Fort Dallas, ca. 1904. 1975-025-99
Julia Tuttle. 1975-025-10
Descriptive Summary
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Tuttle family.
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| Title: |
Tuttle family papers and photographs
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| Dates: |
1889-1954 (bulk 1895-1898)
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| Quantity: |
0.6 linear feet
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| Abstract: |
Correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Julia Tuttle, her father William Sturtevant, and her children. Includes letters from Henry Flagler to Julia Tuttle concerning the extension of the F.E.C. Railway to Miami. Photographs are mainly of the Tuttles and the Miami River environs.
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| Identification: |
1975-107 (papers), 1975-025 (photographs) |
Biographical Note
The partnership between Dade County landowner Julia Tuttle and Henry M. Flagler, builder of the Florida East Coast Railway, is central to Miami's history. In 1895, she offered him a substantial amount of land; in exchange, he brought his railroad south from Palm Beach to Miami, and build a hotel in the young settlement.
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| 1849 |
Julia Sturtevant born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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| 1873 |
Julia Tuttle first visited Biscayne, Florida (now Miami Shores), where her father, Ephraim Sturtevant, had moved.
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| 1886 |
Julia Tuttle's husband, Frederick, died.
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| 1891 |
She then bought land and the Fort Dallas buildings on the Miami River, and moved to Miami.
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| 1895 |
Hard freezes in North and Central Florida destroyed the citrus crop. Tuttle and Flagler began negotiations to extend the FEC Railway to the Miami River.
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| 1896 |
Flagler extended his railroad south in exchange for land, and the City of Miami incorporated.
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| 1898 |
Julia Tuttle died in Miami. The estate was left to trustees, who were found unfit. Lee McBride, principal creditor, was made trustee
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| 1901 |
Julia's son, Henry Tuttle, now 25, was made receiver of the Tuttle estate |
Scope and Content
Papers: Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and biographical material. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1895-1898, is addressed to Julia Tuttle, and deals with business transactions; principal correspondents are Henry Flagler and J. E. Ingraham. Legal documents include warranty deeds, a photocopy of Julia Tuttle's will of 1889, a certified copy of her 1896 will, and abstracts of the legal maneuvers that took place after her death. Also included is information on the Tuttle family, some 1950s material on events honoring Julia Tuttle, and the typescript of For Julia, a biographical novel written by Florida author Zachary Ball (pseudonym of Kelly Ray Masters)
Photographs: studio portraits of Julia Tuttle, William Sturtevant, husband Frederick Tuttle, son Henry Tuttle, daughter Frances Emmalie Tuttle, family and friends. Views of Fort Dallas, the Miami River area, and the Tuttle home in Cleveland, Ohio. Most views are albumen prints, ranging in size from carte-de-visite to about 8 x 10 inches.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related Material
The letters from Julia Tuttle to Henry Flagler and J. E. Ingraham are in the archives of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. Photocopies of selected letters are in HMSF's collections.
Index Terms
Flagler, Henry Morrison
Sturtevant, Ephraim T.
Tuttle family
Tuttle, Julia Sturtevant, 1840-1898.
Administrative Information
Tuttle family papers, Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Gift of Stella Tuttle Chapman and the Tuttle family, 1975.
Container List
Papers
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Contents |
| MS Box 22 |
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Letters from Henry Flagler to Julia Tuttle,, 1895-1898 |
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2 |
Letters from J. E. Ingraham to Julia Tuttle 1896-1898
6 items. |
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Papers, 1910-1954 |
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Wills and documents, 1896-1907 3 items. |
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Wills of Julia Tuttle, 1889 and 1896 |
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Family [genealogy] of Henry Ethelbert Tuttle Photocopies. |
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Ball, Zachary. For Julia [novel] Carbon copy of typescript. 254 p. |
Photographs
Contact prints from 4x5 in copy negatives of the original photographs are located in the Historic Photograph Collection, filed under Tuttle Family or Tuttle, Julia.
The original photographs are filed by accession number in the Artifact Photographs series.
A photochrom, "Picking Oranges," is stored with the Detroit Photographic Company photochroms collection, box 4 (1975-025-137).
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