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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ISG_lighthouse-keepers-cottage_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
The original brick dwelling was completed in July 1825: a two story cottage with two rooms on each floor. The lower floor was dirt and the upper floor had only one small window on each end. The kitchen was attched to the back. The first lighthouse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IED_let-it-shine_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
The Cape Florida Lighthouse stands today as a reminder of perseverance in the face of hardship.
The Cape Florida Lighthouse was built to alert ships as they sailed near the dangerous reefs of the Florida Keys.
Constructed in December 1825, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IEC_escaping-to-freedom-in-the-bahamas_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
In the early 1820's, enslaved Africans, runaways, and "Black Seminoles" seeking freedom from slave catchers and plantation masters, secretly worked their way down to CAPE FLORIDA. They met with bold captains of sloops from the British Bahamas who …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IDJ_key-biscayne-the-barrier-island_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
Key Biscayne is a barrier island located at the north end of the reef-strewn Florida Straits. One thousand years before Columbus sailed, the Tequesta inhabited the island. These coastal fishermen navigated dugout canoes between the island and the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IDI_u-s-coast-survey-base_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
In 1855, a U.S. coast Survey team, led by A.D. Bache, the superintendent of the Coast Survey, erected two base markers on Key Biscayne. One is located on what is now the golf course. This one was on land 300 ft. south of the lighthouse, but by 188…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICY_homes-that-hover_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
Stiltsville got its start in the 1930s, when "Crawfish" Eddie Walker set up a bait shop on the bay.
The area takes its name from the houses built on stilts above the water. By the 1950s and 1960s, it was a popular gathering place for fishermen,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I60_virginia-key-beach-park_Key-Biscayne-FL.html
Virginia Key Beach Park is an environmental and historic landmark located on a barrier island. Its earliest recorded history is of an 1838 skirmish during the Second Seminole War in which three Seminoles were killed on this site. From the early 19…