Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 28, 1896, the founding of Miami. On this day, residents voted to

incorporate the new city of Miami in what would become Florida. There were about

300 residents of the city at the time of the

vote. About 500 people total took part in that vote to incorporate. Yes, of course, only men got to vote,

but one of the key figures in this story, possibly the key figure in this story is a woman Julia Tuttle who basically

Willed this city in a swamp into existence with the help of a couple railroad tycoons and some weird weather of course but let's talk

about the founding of Miami and moreover this fascinating character of Julia Tuttle.

I also think it's really interesting to use this as a chance to talk about the idea of Florida as a frontier.

I mean, we've done so many episodes on this show about the post-civil war story focused on the Western frontier,

but here is Florida as a frontier as well and it has a lot of those same elements, but as always with a Florida twist here as always to discuss

Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wosely.

Hello there.

Bienvenito Amiami Jody.

Oh, there we go.

Hey there.

I'm sure we all have thoughts on Miami's a city now and our relationship to it I'm

thinking about Billy Corbin who's a great documentarian and hosts a show called

because Miami and I mean I just you know it's a really fascinating and hosts a show called Because Miami.

And I mean, I just, you know, it's a really fascinating city.

And I think a lot of the seeds are planted in this founding.

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