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U.S. President Richard Nixon at Key Biscayne's Fourth of July parade in 1969; as president, Nixon visited his Key Biscayne compound over 50 times.. While there had been earlier plans to develop a town on Key Biscayne, the opening of the 4-mile-long (6.4 km) Rickenbacker Causeway from Miami to Virginia Key and on to Key Biscayne in 1947 opened the island up to large-scale residential development.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Area occupies approximately the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne , at coordinates 25°40′25″N 80°09′34″W / 25.67361°N 80.15944°W / 25.67361; -80.
Key Biscayne was first developed for coconut cultivation. The earliest mention of coconuts on Key Biscayne is a Spanish account from 1568, although the reference may be to cocoplums 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 ...
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. Home to the Cape Florida Lighthouse, which dates back to 1825, Ponce de Leon named this area the “Cape of Florida” when he traveled here in 1513.Visitors ...
Talk of a bridge to Key Biscayne, Florida inspired by the bridges connecting Miami to Miami Beach, started in 1926. The northern two-thirds of Key Biscayne was owned by William John “W.J.” Matheson, who had established a coconut plantation on the island. In February 1926 Matheson entered into an agreement with land developer D. P. Davis to ...
The center's five satellite locations include a freestanding emergency department, physician offices, diagnostic center and cancer center in Aventura, physician offices in Coral Gables, Hialeah and Key Biscayne and a diagnostic catheterization and sleep lab in Coral Gables. Mount Sinai includes more than 700 physicians, 3,500 employees and 500 ...
The Cape Florida Light is a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County, Florida. [5] Constructed in 1825, it guided mariners off the Florida Reef , which starts near Key Biscayne and extends southward a few miles offshore of the Florida Keys . [ 6 ]
SR 913 (Rickenbacker Causeway / Southwest 26th Road) – Key Biscayne: Southbound exit and northbound entrance; to Vizcaya, Miami Seaquarium, Miami Marine Stadium, MAST Academy, Virginia Key Beach Park, Crandon Park & Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park: 1.558: 2.507: 2: 1B: US 41 (Southwest 8th–7th Streets) to Brickell Avenue: 2.026: 3.261: 3: 2A