Porvenir, a real estate subdivision was the grandest of the Boom time projects. The plans called for a 100 room hotel, wide streets and lush landscaping. By March, 1926, $1.6 million in sales had been recorded. As quickly as the company had risen, so rapid was its fall. The Great Hurricane of 1926 dealt a deadly blow on the Florida land boom and on the Porvenir project as well - http://fl-homestead.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/253
Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival held in Miami's downtown Bayfront Park in March. The event was founded in 1999 by by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes.
This study was prepared to provide cultural resources data for the Biscayne National Monument master plan and environmental impact document. -- Preface.
A handwritten note on the inside front cover identifies Natalie Newell as an author and literary agent living in Coconut Grove.
The vouchers were forwarded through Fort Brooke (Tampa) to New Port Barracks (Kentucky).
Napoleon S. Padilla was in the tobacco industry for 63 years.
The Carl G. Fisher Company was organized to develop and improve the City of Miami Beach and the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York. The object of the Carl G. Fisher Foundation was to promote the well being of the residents of these two communities by beautifying and improving their surroundings and providing the necessary infrastructure.
Miami Vice was a police drama that was shot on location in Miami during the 1980s.
NAS Miami consisted of the original training base, known as Mainside or Opa-locka, Miami Municipal Field and Masters Field. Activity continued on a reduced basis after the war. Masters Field became Marine Corps Air Station Miami (MCAS Miami). MCAS Miami was closed in 1959, the property was transferred to Dade County, and the Dade County Junior College opened there in 1961. In 1962 the remainder of the NAS property, except for a portion reserved for the U. S. Coast Guard, was transferred to Dade County, and became Opa-locka Airport.
The City of North Miami commissioned this history.
South Florida cattle rancher, Hialeah developer, founder of Hialeah Park horse race track. Introduced Brahman cattle to South Florida, 1911. Lived 1861-1959.
The state of Florida gave the Disston Land Company land in return for construction of a canal west of Lake Okeechobee. The company also built and operated the St. Cloud Sugar Plantation. By the time this letter was written, president Hamilton Disston had died, and the companies were dissolving.
Bertha Foster was a leader in the field of music in Miami for over 40 years. Ca. 1880: she was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She graduated from Cincinnati College of Music in early 1900s, taught music at Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee (later Florida State University), and for 12 years directed the School of Musical Art in Jacksonville (closed in 1923). 1921 October: she establishes Miami Conservatory of Music. 1926: Conservatory merges with the new University of Miami and in effect forms its School of Music. In the early 1930s the two organizations separated. Bertha Foster remained Dean of the University School of Music, while appointing Mrs. Merle Sergeant to head the Conservatory. 1943: Dr. Foster retired as Dean Emeritus. 1956: she sold the Conservatory. 1961: Bertha Foster died (in Miami?).
Beginning in 1886, Ezra Osborn and Elnathan T. Field planted coconuts on land owned by Henry Lum, from Key Biscayne to Jupiter. Within a few years the plantation failed, and worker Richard Carney moved to Coconut Grove. One investor, John S. Collins, bought out Osborn and Field, and in later years, began developing Miami Beach.
In 1953 a Horace Mann Jr. High student, Sue Sober, sent this notebook around to her friends and classmates. They recorded their addresses, ages and opinions on who and what they liked. Arva Moore was one of the group, as was Adele Khoury, future wife of Senator Bob Graham; Plantation legislator and House member Tommy Armstrong and his wife Carol Hosach (later on Plantation city commission); Bob Worley, Miami attorney, and Dr. Roger Sherman, heart surgeon.