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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/HM1H09_biscayne_Miami-Shores-FL.html
In the early 1870s, William H. Gleason and William H. Hunt moved up the bay from Miami and founded the community of Biscayne. They brought with them the Miami Post Office, renaming it the Biscayne Post Office. Since the Dade County Court was where…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H08_arch-creek-road-military-trail_North-Miami-FL.html
The Arch Creek State Archaeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It contains a portion of the Military Trail, a wagon road, built during the Third Seminole War (1855-1859) by the U.S. Army. In 1856 Captains…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H05_arch-creek_North-Miami-FL.html
Until 1973, when it collapsed, the forty foot natural bridge of oolitic limestone that spanned Arch Creek was one of South Florida earliest landmarks. Prehistoric Indians occupied this site hundreds of years before European exploration. In the ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H04_barefoot-mailman_Bethlehem-FL.html
In the 1800s, mail was often carried between the coastal communities of South Florida by barefoot mailmen. These carriers walked most of the route barefoot on the firm sand near the water edge. In the 1880s, the U.S. government established regula…
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/HM1G5W_the-dice-house_Kendall-FL.html
The Dice House is the oldest surviving structure in the Kendall area, built circa 1920 by David Brantly Dice, a popular figure considered the "unnamed mayor of the community". Mr. Dice owned and operated a general store on property adjac…