Most of what became downtown Fort Lauderdale was purchased by Mary and William Brickell in1874
MIAMI - Mention Brickell Avenue and visions of the burgeoning condo and financial center on the south side of the Miami River come to mind. But there is another Brickell Avenue and it is in the heart of Fort Lauderdale. As part of the CBSMiami Women's History Month project, Hank Tester visited with Patricia Zieler, the Executive Director of History Fort Lauderdale. We were looking for pictures of Mary Brickell of which there are darn few.
'So if you look at the original downtown Fort Lauderdale, that is west of Second, West of Andrews Ave, that was all Brickell property,' said George By 1894, Henry Flagler's railroad had arrived in Palm Beach. Mary Brickell and her husband William, an American international entrepreneur, knew that eventually Flagler would expand to Miami which at the urging of Mary Brickell and Julia Tuttle he did.
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