Fort Jefferson remained a Union stronghold during the Civil War.
The chain of islands in south Biscayne Bay now forming Biscayne National Park was once an incorporated municipality and developer's dream called Islandia. Hotly contested during the 1960s by environmentalists vs. developers, the area was set aside as a national monument in 1968.
Assistant drainage engineer.
Landscape architect,, William Lyman Phillips worked primarily in Florida during the 1920s thru 1950s. A graduate of Harvard, he studied and worked under Frederick Law Olmstead. His commissions included residential, commercial and government projects. Phillips died in North Miami in 1966.
President of the United States and Major-General.
Rosston served in the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
The Burdine's Boulevard Shop located directly to the north of the building was annexed by Sears in the 1930s.
U.S. President Kennedy attended a dinner at the Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami Beach) on March 10, 1962, at which Kennedy and U.S. Senator George Smathers gave speeches. Gene Addis, a City of Miami Beach policeman, oversaw security for the speakers' table, and collected these materials after the dinner.
Havee "worked on installation of new dial office."
Nathanael Herreshoff was a naval architect and steam engineer from Bristol, Rhode Island. Herreshoff, a boat designer and friend of Ralph Munroe, wintered in Coconut Grove during the 1920s.
This account of her grandparents' experiences was written when Sheila Patton was a senior at Southwest Miami High School.
Holders of Orange Bowl bonds were asked to donate them to the University's endowment fund.
Charles and Isabella Peacock operated the Bay View House in Coconut Grove. Better known as Peacock Inn, it was the South Florida mainland's first hotel.
F. C. B. LeGro was a founding partner of the Bay Biscayne Improvement Company along with
The Miami Deep Water Society was a "corporation, not for profit, formed to secure an adequate deep water channel and harbor improvements for the City of Miami and Dade County..." -- Letterhead, 1914. Its efforts to make Miami a deep water port brought the corporation into conflict with the Ocean Beach Realty Company, whose interest lay on the Miami Beach side.