James Buck settled in Coconut Grove, 1877-1878. After six months of pioneer life, he returned to Massachusetts and wrote Biscayne Sketches.
William Keegin and Curtis Holcomb were partners in a law firm and involved in the proceedings on the Perrine Grant.
Audit was prepared for the company's trustees, Shutts, Smith and Bowenby the accounting firm of Pentland, Purvis, Keller and Milton.
F. W. Wright was attached to the USS Bache, surveying the channels of the Tortugas and the Everglades area bordering the Florida coast. He photographed the Maine from the ship's deck shortly after the explosion.
The Lincoln Terrace Apartments was located at 1600 Meridian Ave, Miami Beach.
The Prins Valdemar capsized in 1926, and was later towed ashore and used as an aquarium. The U.S. submarine chaser 98 was built in 1918.
Neill C. Sapp was a Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, when he wrote this research paper. The battle of Olustee, the largest Civil War engagement in Florida, took place February 20, 1864.
Lula B. McLendon and her family came to Miami in 1900. Her father, R. B. McLendon, was county tax collector until 1926. Miss McLendon was a lifelong civic activist.
The reenactment was arranged by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Scott Silverman, who presided over the mock trial. Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park in 1933. Zangara missed Roosevelt, but one of his bullets hit Chicago Mayor Anton K. Cermak, killing him. Zangara was electrocuted five weeks after pleading guilty.
In 1914, James Donn, Sr. purchased a small flower shop in Miami, renamed it Exotic Gardens and turned it into a national floral business. The company secured the contract to landscape the newly built Hialeah Race Track in 1924, and in 1931, another new track, Tropical, engaged their services. Donn purchased the struggling Gulfstream race track in Hallandale in 1941 and turned it into a successful racing enterprise, while using the extensive grounds to experiment with different landscaping ideas for his floral business.
Territorial South Florida had few residents, and those clustered along the coast. In 1840 Dade County extended from Key West to Palm Beach.
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Mrs. E. A. Hill, a Florida reform activist, served in various capacities in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union both at the state and national levels. She lobbied for prohibition in Florida and helped established a newspaper and telephone services to further the cause. She served as secretary and State Superintendent for social condition for the Federation of Womens Club. In Orange City, where she resided, Mrs. Hill served on various civic committees.
The Volunteer Port Security Force was a temporary unit of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. Members performed guard duties at docks and piers in communities where there were maritime shipping facilities engaged in the transportation of vital war materials.
Title search was handled by the Security Abstract Company in 1908. As the papers are endorsed for G. B. Battle a year after Bertha Battle bought her land, the occasion may have been a further transfer of ownership.