On Brickell Avenue 0.2 miles north of Southeast 32nd Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1961, attorney Alice C. Wainwright became the first woman elected to the Miami City Commission. Four years later, she was Miami’s first woman vice-mayor. All her life, Wainwright was a fierce advocate for environmental issues, and worked . . . — — Map (db m146369) HM
On Charles Avenue at Plaza Street, on the right when traveling east on Charles Avenue.
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A distinctive type of vernacular architecture found in Key West and South Florida is the Bahamian or Conch house. The name "Conch" was attached to Bahamians who worked as wreckers, ship builders, spongers, and merchants. The name . . . — — Map (db m150495) HM
On Main Highway at Via Abitare Way, on the right when traveling north on Main Highway.
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 . . . — — Map (db m77536) HM
On McFarlane Road just north of South Bayshore Drive, on the right when traveling south.
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Peacock Park is named for Charles and Isabella Peacock, early homesteaders who settled on this property that later became part of the city of Miami. The two were encouraged to travel to South Florida by Charles’ brother, Jack, who was the . . . — — Map (db m263512) HM
On Charles Avenue at Main Highway, on the right when traveling west on Charles Avenue.
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 building materials proved . . . — — Map (db m75597) HM
On Charles Avenue east of Southwest 37th Avenue (Douglas Road), on the right when traveling west.
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Originally African American residents of Coconut Grove attended integrated religious services at Union Chapel, now known as Plymouth Congregational Church. The African Americans, who were used to a more spirited religious . . . — — Map (db m120630) HM
On Plaza Street at Palmetto Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Plaza Street.
In 1910, Miami’s first registered architect, Walter C. DeGarmo, partnered with Franklin C. Bush and John C. Gramling to form the Cocoanut Grove Development Company. In 1911, the company platted the subdivision in the southern part of the town of . . . — — Map (db m228378) HM
On Devon Road east of Hibiscus Street, on the left when traveling east.
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, . . . — — Map (db m77925) HM
On Main Highway just south of Fuller Street, on the right when traveling south.
Coconut Grove began as a small settlement on the cliffs of Biscayne Bay, surrounded by a vast tropical wilderness. In the mid-1800s, the first known permanent residents, Edmund “Ned” and Ann Beasley, settled near what became Barnacle Historic State . . . — — Map (db m273452) HM
On McFarlane Road west of South Bayshore Drive, on the right when traveling west.
The land on which this library stands was given by Commodore Ralph Middleton Munroe, whose first wife lies buried on it.
The library was started by a writer, Kirk Munroe (no relation) and his wife, Mary Barr Munroe, as a reading group called . . . — — Map (db m75209) HM
On McFarlane Road north of South Bayshore Drive, on the right when traveling north.
This library stands as testament to the tenacity of Coconut Grove’s pioneering citizens. Established by the Pine Needles Club, an organization for young girls formed by local teacher Mary Barr Munroe, the first library operated out of a room . . . — — Map (db m150781) HM
On Main Highway at Charles Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Main Highway.
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This theater is one of the few structures in downtown Coconut Grove that typifies the flamboyant era of the 1920s. Envisioned by Miami entrepreneurs Irving Thomas and Fin Pierce, The Grove was a luxurious movie theater designed in . . . — — Map (db m150783) HM
On South Le Jeune Road (State Road 953) at Sunset Drive (State Road 986), on the right when traveling north on South Le Jeune Road.
When developer George Merrick (1886-1942) and the Coral Gables Corporation conceived the master plan for Coral Gables in the 1920s, the city's boundaries encompassed waterfront acreage allowing access to waterways. The original city boundaries went . . . — — Map (db m74931) HM
On South Bayshore Drive at Kirk Street, on the right when traveling north on South Bayshore Drive.
David Thomas Kennedy (April 7, 1934 – Sept. 4, 2014) was an attorney and politician born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was elected to the City of Miami’s City Commission in 1961. Kennedy served as Mayor of Miami from 1969-1973. He enjoyed the . . . — — Map (db m228474) HM
On Pan American Drive south of SW 27th Avenue, in the median.
Picnickers in sailboat days gave the key its name. In World War I, it was a Naval air base. In 1930, Pan American World Airways here inaugurated flying boat service to Latin America, erecting huge hangars and a terminal. The U.S. Government dredged . . . — — Map (db m75186) HM
Near South Douglas Road (Southwest 37th Avenue) 0.1 miles south of Bayview Road, on the left when traveling south.
This low oolitic limestone building was the office and stable of Dr. Eleanor Galt Simmons (1854 – 1909), Dade County’s first female physician. Simmons, a Bryn Mawr College alumna, graduated from the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1880. . . . — — Map (db m145501) HM
On Main Highway north of Hibiscuss Street, on the right when traveling north.
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In the early 20th century, John Bindley (1846-1921), president of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, was among a wave of wealthy northern industrialists who built winter homes along the shore of Biscayne Bay. In 1917, he purchased this . . . — — Map (db m146091) HM
On Hibiscus Street at Percival Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hibiscus Street.
Elizabeth Virrick was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1897. After studying architecture and interior design at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University, she moved to Miami with her husband in 1925. Virrick met Coconut Grove activist and . . . — — Map (db m146364) HM
On Charles Avenue at Southwest 37th Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Charles Avenue.
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In the late 1800s, African-Bahamians migrated to the United States after exhaustion of the islands’ rocky soil. South Florida and the Florida Keys, with similar geography and climate, became attractive destinations. Most Bahamians . . . — — Map (db m150852) HM
On Charles Avenue west of Main Highway, on the left when traveling west.
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Bahamian immigrants played an integral role in the development of Coconut Grove. African-Bahamian immigrant Ebenezer Woodbury Franklin Stirrup was born in 1873, and emigrated from the Bahamas in 1888. Stirrup worked as a . . . — — Map (db m150795) HM
On McFarlane Road just north of South Bayshore Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Born February 7, 1856, Eva Amelia Hewitt Munroe, was the first wife of Commodore Ralph M. Munroe. In the fall of 1881, the young couple traveled from Staten Island, New York to Miami, Florida hoping the mild winter weather would cure Eva's . . . — — Map (db m278268) HM
On Charles Avenue 0.1 miles east of Southwest 37th Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
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 was . . . — — Map (db m150977) HM
On South Bayshore Drive at McFarlane Road, on the right when traveling south on South Bayshore Drive.
On Thursday afternoon, February 19, 1891, Flora McFarlane and five other pioneer women of Dade County founded the Housekeepers Club, the first organized women's club in South Florida. The purpose was to bring the housekeepers of the area together . . . — — Map (db m75192) HM
On South Bayshore Drive at McFarlane Road, on the right when traveling south on South Bayshore Drive.
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Organized as the Housekeepers Club of Coconut Grove when it was founded in 1891, the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove is the oldest federated woman’s club in South Florida. Together with other pioneer women, local school teacher Flora . . . — — Map (db m150790) HM
On Charles Avenue 0.1 miles west of Main Highway, on the left when traveling west.
Mariah Brown was born in the Upper Bogue, Eleuthera, Bahamas in 1851 and immigrated to the United States in 1880. Brown lived in Key West with her three daughters and worked as a laundress. By 1889, Brown had moved to Coconut Grove to work in the . . . — — Map (db m150796) HM
On Pan American Drive at South Bayshore Drive, in the median on Pan American Drive.
Known as the “Air Gateway between the Americas”, the Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building is significant in the history of modern air transportation and is an outstanding example of air terminal design. In 1929, Pan American Airways . . . — — Map (db m150780) HM
On Main Highway north of Royal Road, on the right when traveling north.
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 terms . . . — — Map (db m75217) HM
On Main Highway at Charles Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Main Highway.
Tea Chest he Tea Chest tea room was built by Ralph “Commodore” Munroe and his son, Wirth, circa 1920 for Munroe’s daughter, Patty (1900-1991), and her friend, Alice Ayars. Located across Main Highway from Munroe’s Barnacle estate, the pair . . . — — Map (db m273074) HM
On South Bayshore Drive north of Darwin Street, on the right when traveling north.
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This seaplane hangar was a part of the first permanent United States Coast Guard Air Station in the country. Built in 1932, the hangar served as a crucial center for Coast Guard aviation in Florida. Planes from Dinner Key carried . . . — — Map (db m150778) HM
