The history books may have overlooked her, but a move to the United States saw Albury's Mary Brickell taking the reins and building real estate in what later became Miami.
abc.net.au/news/mary-brickell-miami-florida-founder-albury-new-south-wales/101437364The history books have overlooked one of the founding mothers of Miami, according to a United States historian, and she was a woman from Albury in New South Wales.
The story goes that Tuttle sent railroad magnate Henry Flagler a bouquet of orange blossoms after two brutally cold winters in the mid-1890s — known as The Great Freeze — devastated prominent orange groves in northern Florida. The City of Miami is the second most populous city in Florida, with close to half a million residents.William Brickell arrived in Australia from San Francisco in 1852, and with an entrepreneurial spirit built a fortune with business partner Adam Kidd as they established businesses around Albury.
William and Mary married in Melbourne in 1862 and the next day began the "perilous" three-month ocean journey to the US.Mr Becerra says records show this is where Mary becomes influential, with the land titles in her name."Mary becomes the person that actually takes the initial money and makes extra gold out of it in real estate," he said.