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A bazaar to raise funds for a general hospital was held in Royal Palm Park, Miami, on February 24, 1912. Approximately 5,000 dollars were raised, and an ad-hoc Board (J.E. Lummus, E.C. Romfh, J.A. McDonald, F.B. Shutts, F.T. Budge and Gaston Drake) was put in charge of the funds. In 1917 the money had not yet been spent. When the Woman's Relief Association wanted to use it to fund the clinic and nursery, the Garden Party Board "did not care to assume the risk of incurring personal liability ... and desired that said trust be judicially construed by a court of equity." The Women's Relief group did get the money, and several City Directories list a maternity home and day nursery under their name at 419 1st Street (later 27 N.W. 11th Street).

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Miami Shores was developed during the Miami land boom of the early 1920s by the Shoreland Company, whose principal was Hugh M. Anderson. To boost interest in the waning days of the boom, a theater complex, the Pueblo Feliz, was built in the Arch Creek section of the development in 1925. Chief attraction was the Teatro de Alegria where the Florida historical pageant, Fountania, was staged. The 1926 hurricane and a later fire destroyed the building.

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In March 1923 Gaskins purchased an oil lease for land in Glades County from Indian Prairie Oil & Gas Co. Two years later he decided to sell through Highlands Realty, but having heard from R.J. Brewton, president of Indian Prairie, he withdrew his offer to sell.

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The Uffords wintered in Arch Creek, where they grew vegetables, 1900-1921.

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1908 : Martha Annette Gipson born in Ashland, Ga. Her parents were Ira Gipson and Rebecca Fincannon. Ca. 1925 she marries R.F. Vernon; they separate after a few years. 1931: learns to fly, taught by Lt. Jack Bishop at Roosevelt Field, N.Y. 1930s: sponsors the Gipson International All-Woman Championship flyer contests (3rd Annual held in 1934). 1936: moves to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ; manages their airport. 1938: marries Edward Magoffin and moves to Miami; Davis Road home is built. 1941: son Charles Frederick born. 1945: McGoffin dies; Annette subsequently marries and divorces Francis McClure. 1958 : she marries Robert Wilson Way; he dies ca. 1965. 1985: Annette Gipson dies at the age of 77 in Miami.

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One of a number of land promotions of the time, the Florida Land Company, (offices in Chicago and Jacksonville; J.H. Plummer, president), had land for sale in Clay County, and attempted to raise funds for constructing a 500-room hotel in the projected town of Belmore. A Handbook of Florida (1891), p. 16, shows Belmore as the last station on the Western Railway of Florida.

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Octavio Villegas Perez was Consul General of Colombia and Dean of the Miami Consular Corps.

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Cigar manufacturing had existed in Key West since the 1830s, as it was close to Cuba's tobacco fields. Though many firms moved to the Tampa area in the late 1880s, the industry was continued by this and other companies.

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Buchanan had just been elected president when Doubleday's company was sent to Florida to assist in the campaign against the Seminoles.

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Material reflects some of the paperwork and agencies involved in the massive Cuban exodus to Miami in the 1960s.

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The SS New York was the flagship for the Hamburg-American Cruise Line. In 1937 it made 19-day cruises from New York through the West Indies, to South America.

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Among the signatories was George E. Merrick who owned and operated the Caribbee Colony on Matecumbe Key between 1927 and 1936.

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Probably relates to Collins Bridge.

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Carlos was a mission to the Calusa Indians in southwest Florida. Cabo del los Martires (Cape of the Martyrs, or, the head of the Florida Keys), refers to the mission Tequesta, at the Mouth of the Miami River.

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Written by a high school senior supervised by archaeologist Robert Carr, under the Community Laboratory Research Program.