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George John Mercier was born in Charleston, South Carolina. In the early 1880s he moved to Florida and worked as a steamboat captain on the St. Johns River and for the Indian River Steamship Co. By 1894, he began plying inland rivers as the railroad extension had reduced the demand for intracoastal steamers. Moving to Miami in 1901, he worked in the charter boat business. Mercier died in Miami in 1911.

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Operation Pedro Pan was headed by Monsignor Bryan C. Walsh, and brought hundreds of Cuban children to the Miami area in the early 1960s.

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Dade County floated a bond issue for building Tamiami Trail in 1916 and contracted with McCrary's firm to build 32 miles of road west of Miami. Citing various problems, the firm sought to withdraw from the project after completing 17 miles in 1923. The State Road Dept. completed the Trail in 1928.

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Brite moved to Miami from Ohio in the 1940s. In 1957, he and his wife started publishing Aero News South, a biweekly newsletter on aviation matters. It was during this time that he probably wrote the unpublished manuscript History of Aviation in Miami.

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Peavy, then in charge of the Dade County Parks Department, was investigating the possibility of recreating the fort.

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Singleton oversaw the dredging of Biscayne Bay for the Florida East Coast Railway Company near the railroad's new terminal.

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After Seminoles destroyed Indian Key (the county seat) in 1840, most South Florida residents left. Walter Maloney, acting county clerk, fled to Key West.

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The Millard family came to Miami from Nassau, where they were involved in retail trade and farming.

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T. Frederick Davis, author of several works on Florida history, noted that his Digest was issued in an edition of one original and four carbon copies, which were distributed to the Library of Congress and to Florida historical research centers.

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Audubon visited northeast Florida during the winter of 1831-1832, spending most of his time in Saint Augustine and on the Bulow plantation, near present-day Ormond Beach. This letter was written while he was staying on the Bulow plantation.

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J. W. Simonton was a major landowner in territorial South Florida, with large land holdings in Key West. He worked closely with Fitzpatrick, whose plantations were in what is now Miami.

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The insurgents' strike against the sugar estates was part of the armed uprising against Spanish authority. Maximo Gomez, Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Army, advocated a scorched-earth policy that would adversely affect the economy and in particular the sugar estates. Gomez calculated that this would have the effect of forcing Cuban supporters of Spain to accept the revolution, and on the other hand, Spain would have to concede independence in the face of catastrophic economic losses and inability to control the rebellion.

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At this time the Miami/West Indies Archaeological Association sponsored the museum.

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Villa Woodbine, 2167 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove

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The Harris family's ownership of these properties came to an end when they moved back to Key West. The land eventually came into possession of the Bank of Bay Biscayne, and in 1890, much of it was purchased by Julia Tuttle.