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.
Octavio Villegas Perez was Consul General of Colombia and Dean of the Miami Consular Corps.
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.
Buchanan had just been elected president when Doubleday's company was sent to Florida to assist in the campaign against the Seminoles.
Material reflects some of the paperwork and agencies involved in the massive Cuban exodus to Miami in the 1960s.
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.
Among the signatories was George E. Merrick who owned and operated the Caribbee Colony on Matecumbe Key between 1927 and 1936.
Probably relates to Collins Bridge.
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.
Written by a high school senior supervised by archaeologist Robert Carr, under the Community Laboratory Research Program.
In 1968 Robert Padrick was Chairman for the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District. The Everglades jetport, for which this road was proposed, was hotly debated by developers and environmentalists during the 1960s and 1970s. This letter started organized efforts against the construction of the jetport, and subsequently led to the formation of an environmental movement in South Florida.
John Irwin Bright was an architect from Philadelphia.
William J. Krome was Assistant Engineer for the Florida East Coast Railway and headed the survey team that worked on the railroad extension south of Miami.
The Buena Vista Neighborhood was selected as part of the Miami's Great Neighborhood Program. The program promoted urban renewal in older residential neighbourhoods through improvements such as the construction of sanitary sewers, rebulding of local streets and the acquisition and development of neighborhood parks. The formation of neighborhood associations was encouraged as vital to the revitalization program.
Merrick Manor has been renamed Coral Gables House. It was built by Solomon and Althea Merrick and named Coral Gables, from which George Merrick derived the city's name. W.L. Philbrick purchased the property in 1966 and formed the Merrick Manor Foundation. The foundation maintained the site until the City of Coral Gables acquired it in 1976. The city restored the house 1977-1978.