Oscar T. Conklin and Edith H. Mercier were married in Miami June 11, 1905. His 1907 diary as excerpted by his daughter records the life of a young husband and father--with a fine voice: he lists a number of occasions where he sang solos, including one at Royal Palm Hotel in front of 1200 persons. He was also a journalist who came to Florida to work for the Florida East Coast Hotel Company, later moving to the Miami Herald, where by 1911 he was general manager.
Property was situatated west of the Florida East Coast Railway track between NW 2nd and 3rd Streets and NW. 1st Avenue. Appears on the Map of Miami, Dade Co., Fla.,
Article written after Senator Holland's retirement from office (1969 November 12).
The Cormacks settled in what is now Miami Shores in 1911.
Miami-West India Archaeological Society was the Dade County Chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society.
Deaconess Bedell is noted for her work among the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians of Florida between 1933-1960.
Founded by Ralph O'Neill in 1928-29, the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line provided pioneer air travel service to South America, using amphibian planes. O'Neill ran the airline until it merged with Pan Am in the early 1930s. Jane Galbraith, executive secretary of the airlines wrote and annotated the log.
Pinewood Cemetery is Miami-Dade County's oldest known cemetery. From the mid 1800s it was the burial ground for pioneers from as far south as Perrine. The cemetery is no longer used for internments.
Paul Tevis, councilman and official historian of South Miami, based his history on city records and interviews with pioneer residents.
George and Hannah Ferguson settled at the head of the Miami River, and in the 1840s operated the largest coontie starch mill on the river and in the area. The starch was shipped to Key West. The Fergusons were in Key West when they decided to sell this land, which, being close to the Miami River, may have been used for harvesting coontie.
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.
Operation Pedro Pan was headed by Monsignor Bryan C. Walsh, and brought hundreds of Cuban children to the Miami area in the early 1960s.
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.
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.
Peavy, then in charge of the Dade County Parks Department, was investigating the possibility of recreating the fort.