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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCN_miami-city-cemetery_Miami-FL.html
In 1897 Mrs. Mary Brickell sold this 10-acre "rocky wasteland" to the City of Miami for $750. It was a half mile north of the city limits on a narrow wagon county trail. The first burial, not recorded, was of an elderly black man on 14 J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H7E_cocoanut-grove-public-utilities-company_Miami-FL.html
The Cocoanut Grove Public Utilities Company was established in 1916 by William Matheson and his son Hugh to provide local residents with telephone and water services. A ground level storage tank, filled from wells on the site by two diesel engines…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H4U_the-cushman-school_Miami-FL.html
Miami's oldest independent day school was founded by Dr. Laura Cushman in 1924. The school moved to this site in 1926, opening in early October, having sustained only minor damage from the disastrous September hurricane. The original Mediterranean…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H0A_pioneer-boat-builders-site_Miami-FL.html
For thousands of years most water crafts were built of wood. The first reinforced plastic fiberglass boats in the southeastern United States were conceived and built here in 1947. Two hundred feet north of this marker is the former home and worksh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GXA_the-barnacle_Miami-FL.html
The Barnacle is the oldest home in Dade County still standing on its original site. It was built in 1891 by Ralph Middleton Munroe, one of Coconut Grove's most prominent pioneers. He first visited South Florida in 1877 and moved to this area in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FI1_the-historic-coconut-grove-cemetery_Miami-FL.html
The Historic Coconut Grove Cemetery was first used as a graveyard for the Grove's Bahamian settlers in 1906. The community's original cemetery was a small lot opened by the city in 1904 on what is now the 3500 block of Charles Avenue. That site wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FHY_charles-avenue_Miami-FL.html
The first black community on the South Florida mainland began here in the late 1880s when Blacks primarily from the Bahamas came via Key West to work at the Peacock Inn. Their first hand experience with tropical plants and bulding materials proved…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F8W_ransom-school_Miami-FL.html
In 1896 Paul C. Ransom first brought students from an Eastern preparatory school to this site, which he named Pine Knot Camp, for a winter term of study and outdoor life. In 1903 it became the Adirondack-Florida School with the fall and spring ter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7C_ferdinand-magellan_Miami-FL.html
U.S. Car No. 1,Ferdinand Magellanhas been designatedNationalHistoric Landmark
Presidential railroad car built for theexclusive use of the President of theUnited States of America1942Restored and exhibited byThe Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Miami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E79_the-perrine-land-grant_Miami-FL.html
(side 1)In 1838, the United States Congress granted a township of land in the southern extremity of Florida to noted horticulturist Dr. Henry Perrine and his associates. This land was to be used in experiments aimed at introducing foreign tropical…