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Key Biscayne

Coordinates:25°41′25″N80°09′54″W / 25.690329°N 80.165118°W /25.690329; -80.165118
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Island in Florida, United States
This article is about the island. For the village on the island of the same name, seeKey Biscayne, Florida. For thetennis tournament formerly held on the island and sometimes referred to as Key Biscayne, seeMiami Open (tennis).
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Geography
LocationMiami-Dade County, Florida, U.S.
Coordinates25°41′25″N80°09′54″W / 25.690329°N 80.165118°W /25.690329; -80.165118
Length5 mi (8 km)
Width1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Highest elevation5 ft (1.5 m)
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Key Biscayne (Spanish:Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located inMiami-Dade County, Florida, located between the Atlantic Ocean andBiscayne Bay. It is the southernmost of thebarrier islands along the Atlantic coast of Florida, and lies south ofMiami Beach and southeast ofMiami. The key is connected to Miami via theRickenbacker Causeway, originally built in 1947.

The northern portion of Key Biscayne is home toCrandon Park, acounty park. The middle section of the island consists of the incorporated Village ofKey Biscayne. The southern part of the island is now protected asBill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, adjacent toBiscayne National Park, one of the two national parks in Miami-Dade County.

Name

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Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda related that a sailor from theBay of Biscay, called theViscayno orBiscayno, had lived on the lower east coast of Florida for a while after being shipwrecked. A 17th-century map showsCayo de Biscainhos, the probable origin ofKey Biscayne.[1]

Geography

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Key Biscayne, although named a "key", is notgeologically part of theFlorida Keys,[2] but is abarrier island composed of sanderoded from theAppalachian Mountains, carried to the coast by rivers and thenmoved along the coast from the north by coastal currents.[3] The eastern edge of Key Biscayne is underlain by theKey Largo Limestone, a fossilized ancient reef that is exposed in the upper and middle Florida Keys.[4] Elsewhere, there is no hard bedrock near the surface of the island, only layers of weaksandstone to depths of 100 feet (30 m) or more.[5] The coastal transport of sand southward ends at Key Biscayne. In the 1850s,Louis Agassiz noted that "[s]outh ofCape Florida no moresilicacious sand is to be seen."[6] (The beaches in the Florida Keys, by contrast, consist primarily of finely pulverized shells.)[7]Geologists believe that the island emerged around 2000BCE, soon after thesea level stopped rising, as the sand built up to form new barrier islands on the southern Florida coast.[8]

Key Biscayne is elongated in the north–south direction, tapering to a point at each end. It is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) wide. The northern end of the island is separated from another barrier island,Virginia Key, by Bear Cut. The southern end of the island is Cape Florida. The Cape Florida Channel separates the island from theSafety Valve, an expanse of shallow flats cut by tidal channels that extends southward about 9 miles (14 km) to theRagged Keys, at the northern end of the Florida Keys.

OnlySoldier Key, approximately 200 by 100 yards (183 by 91 m) wide, lies between Key Biscayne and the Ragged Keys.[9] The Cape Florida Channel, 10 to 11 feet (3.0 to 3.4 m) deep in 1849, and Bear Cut, 4 feet (1.2 m) deep in 1849, are the deepest naturalchannels into Biscayne Bay. They provided the only access for ocean-going vessels to Biscayne Bay until artificial channels were dredged starting early in the 20th century. In 1849 the island had a fine sandy beach on the east side, andmangroves andlagoons on the west side.[10] The average elevation of the island is less than five feet (1.5 m) abovesea level.[11]

Key Biscayne is located at25°41′25″N80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.16500°W /25.69028; -80.16500 (25.690329, -80.165118).[12]

History

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Early history

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The first known indigenous inhabitants of Key Biscayne wereTequestas. Shells, bones andartifacts found on the island indicate extensive use of it by the Tequesta. A large community appeared to inhabit the island between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. In 1992Hurricane Andrew scoured much of the vegetation from the southern end of Key Biscayne. Anarchaeological survey of the exposed ground found evidence of extensive habitation.[13]

Juan Ponce de León charted Key Biscayne on his first mission to the New World in 1513. He christened the island Santa Marta and claimed it for the Spanish Crown. He reported that he found a fresh water spring on the island.[14] Ponce de León called the bay behind the island (Biscayne Bay)Chequescha, a variant form of Tequesta.[1]

The next European known to have visited the Key Biscayne area wasPedro Menéndez de Avilés. In 1565 his ship took refuge in Biscayne Bay from a storm. Relations were established with the Tequesta, and in 1567 a mission was established on the mainland across the bay from Key Biscayne. The mission was abandoned three years later in 1570. No other mission was established on the mainland until 1743, and that was withdrawn a few months later.[15]

The first known European settlers on Key Biscayne were Pedro Fornells, his family and household. Fornells and his wife Mariana wereMenorcan survivors of theNew Smyrna colony in northern Florida. Pedro and Mariana had joined other Menorcans in seeking refuge atSt. Augustine after leaving New Smyrna. They stayed in the city after the Spanish regained Florida in 1783. Fornells received a Royal Grant for 175 acres (71 ha) on the southern end of Key Biscayne in 1805. The grant required Fornells to live on the island and establish cultivation within six months. He moved his household to the island, but after six months, the family returned to St. Augustine, leaving a caretaker named Vincent on the island.[16]

Territorial years

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Following theFirst Seminole War and a treaty with Spain, Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821. Under pressure from US settlers,Seminole andBlack Seminoles began to migrate into central and southern Florida. In the early 19th century, African-American slaves and Black Seminoles escaped to the Bahamas from Cape Florida to evade Americanslaver catchers. In 1820, one traveler reported seeing 60 "Indians", 60 "runaway slaves", and 27 boats of Bahamianwreckers preparing to leave Cape Florida. In a short period before theCape Florida lighthouse was built in 1825, an estimated 300Black Seminoles found passage from Key Biscayne toAndros Island in theBahamas on seagoing canoes and Bahamian boats, settling at Red Bays andNicholls Town. Although Key Biscayne was less suitable as a departure point after the lighthouse was built, the Bahamas remained a haven for escaping slaves.[17]

In 1824 Mary Ann Channer Davis, who had moved to St. Augustine with her husband in 1821, bought the Fornells claim to Key Biscayne from one of the Fornells' heirs for US$100. Mary and her husband William Davis, a deputyU.S. Marshal, probably were aware of plans to build alighthouse on the Florida coast somewhere between St. Augustine andKey West, and knew that Key Biscayne was a likely location for it. Mary and William sold three acres (about one-and-a-quarter hectares) of their newly acquired land at the southern tip of the island (Cape Florida) to the U.S. government for US$225. The federal government built theCape Florida lighthouse on that land in 1825.[18]

The first U.S. citizens to take up permanent residence on Key Biscayne wereCaptain John Dubose, his wife Margaret and their five children in 1825, when Dubose became the firstkeeper for the new Cape Florida Light, a post he held until the lighthouse was burned in 1836. The family was also accompanied by two former slaves of Margaret's brother. The Dubose household grew during that time and was reported in 1833 to consist of "eleven whites and several negroes".[19] During his tenure as lighthouse keeper, Dubose received hundreds of plants and seeds from Dr.Henry Perrine, United StatesConsul inCampeche,Mexico, which he planted on the island. In 1835 a majorhurricane struck the island, damaging the lighthouse and the keeper's house, and putting the island under three feet of water, which killed almost all the plants that Dr. Perrine had sent from Mexico.[20]

War with the Seminoles

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See also:Cape Florida Light § Attack on the lighthouse

In 1836, during theSecond Seminole War,Seminoles attacked and burned the Cape Florida lighthouse, severely wounding the assistant lighthouse keeper in charge; his black assistant died of wounds.[21] The lighthouse was not repaired and put back into commission until 1847.[22]

A military post was established on Key Biscayne in March 1838. Its first commander wasLt. Col. James Bankhead. The fort was initially known as Fort Dallas[23][a] or Fort Bankhead, but it was eventually renamed Fort Russell for Captain Samuel L. Russell. He was killed when the Seminoles ambushed two boats on theMiami River in February 1839. In the summer of 1839, a total of 143 soldiers and sailors were stationed at Fort Russell.[24] Some of the Seminoles captured during the war were held at Fort Russell until they could be placed on ships to beremoved toIndian Territory.

A hospital was established at Fort Russell forUnited States Army,United States Navy, andUnited States Marine Corps personnel. In August 1840, the Army surgeon at the hospital treated 103 patients, including 23 for fever and 26 fordysentery. Dysentery was the leading cause of death at the fort, followed bymalaria,tuberculosis, gunshot wounds andalcoholism.[25]

Colonel Bankhead was replaced by Lieutenant ColonelWilliam S. Harney in 1839. Colonel Harney had two earlier encounters with Seminoles, the first a battle in which ChiefArpeika eluded capture, and a second in which Harney escaped in only his shirt and drawers from an early morning attack (theHarney Massacre) on his camp led by ChiefChakaika. In light of these experiences, Harney instituted an intensive training program in swamp and jungle warfare for his men. After Chakaika led the raid onIndian Key in August 1840, Harney set out into theEverglades after Chakaika, and killed him in his own camp. The war quieted down after that, with active pursuit of the Seminoles ending in 1842, although some of the Seminoles remained hidden in the Everglades.[26]

While the war against the Seminoles continued, Mary and William Davis made plans to develop a town on Key Biscayne. They had a town plan printed inPhiladelphia. The island was touted as an ideal destination "for the recovery of the health". When Indian Key had been named theseat for the newly createdDade County in 1836, the county provided that the county court would meet annually on Key Biscayne. In late 1839 theUnited States Postmaster General approved apost office for Key Biscayne. The first two lots of the new town were sold to Lt. Col. Harney for a total of US$1,000. There is no evidence that the post office ever opened; in 1842 the Postmaster General noted that the appointed postmaster had not completed any of the requirements for opening the post office.[21] No further sales of town lots were made after Harney's purchase.

A complication arose when Venancio Sanchez of St. Augustine purchased for US$400 a half share in the old Fornells grant from another surviving heir, who lived inHavana. A feud quickly developed between Sanchez and the Davises, with Sanchez demanding a division of the property, and the Davises refusing to acknowledge that Sanchez had any claim to the island. The Davises had hoped that a restored lighthouse would be the centerpiece of their town, but all attempts to repair the lighthouse failed while the war was on. Shortly after the end of the war, the Davises gave up on Key Biscayne and moved toTexas. Their older sonEdmund J. Davis eventually was elected as governor there.[27]

Surveys and lighthouses

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U.S. Coast Survey Base Marker

The numerous ship wrecks that occurred along the southeast coast of Florida from Key Biscayne to theDry Tortugas was a cause for concern. Between the late 1840s and the late 1850s, more than 500 ships were wrecked on theFlorida Reef. The Assistant United States Coast Surveyor reported that in the period from 1845 through 1849, almost one million (United States) dollars' worth of vessels and cargoes were lost on the reef.[28]

In 1846, theU.S. Congress appropriated $23,000 to rebuild the Cape Florida lighthouse and work was completed in 1847.

In 1849 the United States Board of Engineers conducted a preliminary survey of the coast of Florida. In a report written by Lieutenant ColonelRobert E. Lee in March, 1849, the Board recommended that Key Biscayne be made a military reservation.[29] Later that year, theUnited States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers set up a camp with anastronomical/magnetic station to serve as a datum base for asurvey of the Florida Keys and the Great Florida Reef.[30]

To learn more about the Great Florida Reef, Alexander Bache invitedLouis Agassiz to study it. The U.S. Coast Survey sent Agassiz to Key Biscayne in 1851. He wrote a detailed report for Bache on the reefs stretching from Key Biscayne to the Marquesas Keys.[6]

Thetriangulation survey was conducted by theUnited States Coast Survey with men detailed from the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. Approximately forty men were based at Cape Florida working on the survey whenAlexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, went to Key Biscayne in 1855 to take charge of it. The survey eventually covered Key Biscayne, Biscayne Bay, the Florida Keys from south of Key Biscayne to theMarquesas Keys, andFlorida Bay from the Keys toCape Sable.[30]

In 1861,Confederate militants sabotaged the lighthouse so that it could not guideUnion sailors during the blockade ofConfederateFlorida. The lighthouse was repaired and re-lit again in 1866.[citation needed] In 1878 the Cape Florida Light was replaced by theFowey Rocks Light, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Cape Florida.[31]

From 1888 to 1893, theCape Florida lighthouse was leased by theUnited States Secretary of the Treasury for a total of US$1.00 (20 cents per annum) to theBiscayne Bay Yacht Club for use as its headquarters. It was listed as the southernmost yacht club in the United States, and the tallest in the world. After the lease expired, the yacht club moved toCoconut Grove, where it continues.[32]

In 1898, in response to the growing tension with Spain overCuba, which led to theSpanish–American War, the Cape Florida lighthouse was briefly made U.S. Signal Station Number Four. It was one of 36 along the U.S.East Coast andGulf Coast fromMaine toTexas. The Signal Stations were established to provide an early warning of any approach of the Spanish fleet.[33]

The north base marker for Key Biscayne was discovered in 1970 as workers were clearing land. It was at first mistaken as a gravestone for someone named A. D. Bache.[34] The survey base marker at Cape Florida ended up under water, as the south end of the island eroded. It could be seen at low tide as late as 1913. In 1988 the Cape Florida base marker was recovered from under water and installed near the Cape Florida lighthouse.[35][36]

Development

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Key Biscayne was first developed forcoconut cultivation. The earliest mention of coconuts on Key Biscayne is a Spanish account from 1568, although the reference may be tococoplums rather than coconuts. Mature coconut trees were on Cape Florida by the 1830s, likely grown from coconuts sent from Mexico by Henry Perrine to the first lighthouse keeper, John Dubose.[37]

In the 1880s, Ezra Asher Osborn and Elnathan T. Field of New Jersey started an enterprise to develop the Florida coast from Key Biscayne toJupiter by clearing native vegetation, levelingIndian midden mounds and beachdunes, and planting coconuts. Osborn and Field imported 300,000 unhusked coconuts from the Caribbean, of which 76,000 were planted on Key Biscayne. Most of the shoots from the coconuts on Key Biscayne were eaten by rats andmarsh rabbits (Sylvilagus palustris). As a result of their efforts, in 1885 Osborn and Field were allowed to purchase Key Biscayne and other oceanfront land from the FloridaInternal Improvement Trust Fund for 70 cents an acre.[38]

Mary Ann Davis, who had bought the Fornells grant on Key Biscayne in 1821, died inGalveston, Texas in 1885. Her son Waters Smith Davis began taking steps to assert the family title to the island. In 1887 he purchased the rights of the other Davis heirs and received a new deed in his name. He could not get a clear title, however. Venancio Sanchez still claimed a half share of the Fornells Grant, two of the town lots had been sold to William Harney around 1840, and Osborne and Field had their deed from the Florida Internal Improvement Fund. Davis receivedquitclaims from Osborn and Field, and on the Harney lots, but was unable to settle with Sanchez. He finally received a patent from the United States government for his land in 1898. In 1903 Davis bought the abandoned Cape Florida lighthouse from the United States Treasury for US$400.[39]

Davis started apineapple plantation on Key Biscayne; six acres (two-and-a-half hectares) had been cleared and planted in pineapples in 1893–94. Davis also directed his caretaker to plant one-half to one acre (two-tenths to four-tenths of a hectare) ofbananas. By 1898, a great variety of tropical fruit trees had been planted on the island. Davis also had a large dwelling built for his use. It was a two-story cottage with five bedrooms and verandas on three sides, raised ten feet above the ground on pilings to protect against storm surges.[40]

In the late 1890s, Davis hiredRalph Munroe to oversee his Key Biscayne property. Munroe had begun visiting Biscayne Bay in 1877. He soon built a home, theBarnacle, on land on the mainland in Coconut Grove that he bought from John Frow, keeper of the Cape Florida Light and Fowey Rocks Light. Munroe engaged inwrecking in the waters around Key Biscayne, built sailboats, worked as apilot for the Cape Florida Channel and opened a pineapplecannery, to which Davis sent his pineapples. Before mail service to the Miami area improved, Munroe would camp out on Key Biscayne every Tuesday evening so that he could sail out to the edge of theGulf Stream early Wednesday morning to retrieve a package of newspapers and magazines dropped for him in waterproof pouches by a passing steamship. Munroe was also one of the founding members of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.[41]

In 1896,Henry Morrison Flagler brought theFlorida East Coast Railway to Miami. Mary Ann and William Davis had dreamed of building a city on Key Biscayne. Now their son Waters was a retired millionaire, and interested only in preserving Key Biscayne as a quiet retreat for his family. For a while Flagler's arrival did disturb their quiet, as Flagler brought in dredges to deepen the Cape Florida Channel and the approaches to the mouth of the Miami River, muddying the formerly clear waters of Biscayne Bay. Soon, however, a shorter route from the ocean to Miami was dredged through the southern end of what is now Miami Beach, atGovernment Cut, and the Cape Florida Channel was allowed to return to a natural state.[42]

Coconut plantation and would-be resort

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Biscayne Bay visible through coconut trees between 1900 and 1915

In 1902,William John Matheson, who had made his fortune in theaniline dye business, visited Biscayne Bay on his yacht. He soon built a winter home in Coconut Grove overlooking the bay. In 1908 Matheson began buying up the property on Key Biscayne north of the Davis holdings, all the way to Bear Cut, over 1,700 (about 690 hectares) acres. Matheson created aplantation community, employing 42 workers by 1915, and 60 later. It included housing for the workers and their families, packing houses, docks, a school, a big barn, windmills, and 15 miles (24 km) of (unpaved) roads. The plantation had 36,000 coconut trees, and a variety of other tropical fruits. In 1921 Matheson introduced the Malay Dwarf coconut to the United States. This is now the most common variety of coconut found in Florida, afterlethal yellowing killed off most of the Jamaican Tall coconut trees and many other varieties. The Matheson coconut plantation was at least twice as large as any other in the United States. By 1933, the world price for coconut products had dropped to about two-fifths of its 1925 level, and the plantation stopped shipping.[43][44]

Waters Davis decided to sell his Key Biscayne property in 1913 (he died the following year). He appointed Ralph Munroe to act as his broker. Although Matheson bid on the property, Munroe arranged a sale, for US$20,000, toJames Deering, theInternational Harvester heir and owner of theVilla Vizcaya estate in Miami. In 1914 Deering decided to develop his new land on the island as a tropical resort. He felt that Cape Florida's "future lies in making sales for homes."[45] To prepare, the land was cleared, with marshes and mangroves were filled in. Jetties were built on the ocean side, in the belief that they would protect the beaches from erosion. They have been found to aggravate erosion.[46]

Waters Davis stipulated in his sale to Deering that the Cape Florida lighthouse be restored. Deering wrote to the U.S. government seeking specifications and guidelines for the lighthouse. Government officials were taken aback by the request, wondering how a federal lighthouse could have passed into private hands. An Act of Congress and two Executive Orders, in 1847 and 1897, had reserved the island for the federal lighthouse and for military purposes. Patient legal work eventually convinced the U.S. Congress and PresidentWoodrow Wilson to agree to recognize Matheson's and Deering's ownership of Key Biscayne.[47]

In 1920, the heirs of Venancio Sanchez filed a lawsuit against James Deering, claiming an undivided half interest in his Cape Florida property. This brought development of the resort on Cape Florida to a halt. After many legal battles, the suit was finally decided in Deering's favor by theUnited States Supreme Court in 1926. The decision came too late for Deering; he had died the previous year.[48]

1920s to 1950s

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The beach atCrandon Park in Key Biscayne in February 2008
TheMiami Open tennis tournament was held at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne from 1987 until 2019 when it moved toHard Rock Stadium inMiami Gardens.

In February 1926, William Matheson entered into an agreement with D. P. Davis, a land developer unrelated to Waters Davis, to develop and re-sell the northern half of Key Biscayne, including all of what is now Crandon Park and about half the present Village of Key Biscayne. Davis had experience with turning submerged or partially submerged land into prime real estate, having created theDavis Islands inTampa and Davis Shores near St. Augustine. Later in 1926, the City ofCoral Gables incorporated with Key Biscayne, which was included in its boundaries. There were dreams of a bridge to the island, making Key Biscayne the seaside resort for Coral Gables, as Miami Beach had become for Miami.[49]

Obstacles to the project arose. In March 1926, theU.S. government auctioned off some lots on Key Biscayne that had been retained when the rest of the island was transferred to the State of Florida. The Mathesons wanted to have clear title to all of their land, and determined to outbid other interested parties for it. They ended up paying US$58,055 for a total of 6.84 acres (2.77 ha) of land, a record price per acre for the auction of U.S. government land up to that date.[50] On September 18, 1926, theGreat Miami Hurricane crossed over Key Biscayne on its way to Miami. Although there were no deaths on the island, most of the buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. Many of the plantings were lost, including half of the coconut trees.[51] The Mathesons rushed to restore their plantation, replanting and buying new equipment to replace what was lost. They soon had 30,000 coconut trees replanted on 900 acres (364 ha).[52] D. P. Davis could not meet his contract; he declared bankruptcy and disappeared en route to Europe by ship.[53]

The Florida land boom was over, and no bridge was built and no development took place on Key Biscayne for the next two decades. William Matheson died in 1930, leaving the island to his children. In 1939, theU.S. Navy approved a proposal to developVirginia Key as an air base and sea port. There was talk of putting an air base on the north end of Key Biscayne.[51]

In 1940, William Matheson's heirs donated 808.8 acres (327.3 ha) of land, including two miles (3.2 km) of beach on the Atlantic Ocean, on the northern end of Key Biscayne to Dade County to be used as a public park, later namedCrandon Park. The county commissioner who negotiated the gift, Charles H. Crandon, had offered to have the county build a causeway to Key Biscayne in exchange for the land donation. As planning for the air and sea complex on Virginia Key was proceeding, construction on a causeway to Virginia Key started in 1941.[54]

TheAttack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II stopped all work on the causeway and the development of Virginia Key. After the war, Crandon pushed on with the development project. He got financierEd Ball to buy six million (U.S.) dollars' worth of bonds financing construction of the causeway. The causeway was named forEddie Rickenbacker, aWorld War Iflying ace, and founder and president of the Miami-basedEastern Air Lines.[55]

Starting in 1951, the Mackle Construction Company offered new homes on the island for US$9,540, with just US$500 down. A U.S. Post Office contract branch was opened, the Community Church started holding services, and the Key Biscayne Elementary School opened in 1952.[56]

The residents of Key Biscayne successfully petitioned theDade County Commission allow a referendum on incorporating the community. The referendum passed and theVillage of Key Biscayne was incorporated in 1991, the first new municipality in the county in 30 years.[57]

Cape Florida becomes a state park

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Main article:Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
National Network to Freedom Trail sign commemorating hundreds ofBlack Seminoles who escaped from Cape Florida in the early 1820s to theBahamas

In 1948, José Manuel Áleman, who had fled Cuba in the wake of scandals surrounding his service as education minister underRamón Grau San Martín, bought the Cape Florida property from the Deering estate. His offer to donate the lighthouse and ten acres (four hectares) of land around it to theNational Park Service was not accepted.[58]

In 1950, the Dade County Planning Board announced a plan to build a highway connecting Key Biscayne with theOverseas Highway on Key Largo. The project envisioned bridges connecting artificial islands, to be built on the Safety Valve and existing small keys toElliott Key and on to Key Largo. Áleman was expected to donate the right-of-way for a road running down the middle of the island to the first bridge at Cape Florida. With the prospect of a major highway passing through his property, Áleman rushed to prepare it for development: he had it completely cleared, leveled and filled in. Aseawall was constructed along the western (Biscayne Bay) side of the Cape Florida property.[59]

Áleman died in 1951, and the County soon backed down from its road and bridge plan. His widow, Elena Santeiro Garcia, added to her Cape Florida property by buying an ocean-to-bay strip that had been part of the Matheson property. It included a canal dug by William Matheson in the 1920s, extending from the bay across most of the island. The land north of the canal was developed as part of the present-day Village of Key Biscayne. Garcia sold the Cape Florida property in 1957 for US$9.5 million, but the buyer defaulted and died the next year. Garcia sold the property again, for US$13 million. Development started on a model community' of luxury homes and resort properties. By 1962 the new developers were in financial trouble, and the property reverted again to Garcia in 1963.[60]

Dade County began considering purchase of 50 acres (200,000 m2) around the Cape Florida lighthouse for a park in 1964.Bill Baggs, editor ofThe Miami News, campaigned for all the Cape Florida property to be preserved in a park.U.S. Interior SecretaryStewart Udall inspected the property and recommended that it be preserved, although not with Federal funds.[61]

In 1966, Baggs brokered a deal between Elena Santeiro Garcia and the state of Florida, in which Florida bought the property for US$8.5 million, of which US$2.3 million came from the U.S. government. This land was named theBill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, and opened January 1, 1967.[62] In 2004 a sign was installed to commemorate the site as part of the NationalUnderground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail, for the Black Seminoles who escaped to theBahamas.

Notes

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  1. ^Fort Dallas was established across Biscayne Bay on the Miami River in 1837.

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  8. ^Blank 1996, p. 3.
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