We now all know that Justin Bieber was busted for driving drunk and resisting arrest in Miami. But do you know where the name Miami came from?

There were a number of Native American tribes in what is today called Florida: the Tequestas of Biscayne Bay; in the southwest coast, the Calusa Indians, originally called the “Calos”; and the Mayaimi, who built villages near Lake Okeechobee in south-central Florida. It is said that the word Mayaimi translates to “big water.”

Interestingly, the city of Miami was founded by a woman—the only female founder of a major American city. In 1874, Julia Tuttle, who hailed from Cleveland, headed to Florida to visit her father, who lived in the area. Despite the mosquito-infested swamps, she liked what she saw. After her father died and left her his land, she purchased more acreage and then talked railroad builder Henry Flagler into extending tracks southward. In 1896 the city she had founded was incorporated; by the 1920s, it was a bustling metropolis. In 2010, a 10-foot tall statue of Julia Tuttle, the “Mother of Miami,” was erected in Bayfront Park.

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