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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 ...
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 ]
Soldier Key is an island in Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is located between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean , about three miles north of the Ragged Keys , five miles south of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne , seven-and-a-half miles east of the mainland and three miles west of Fowey Rocks .
Location: 6747 Crandon Boulevard Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida, United States: Area: 808.8 acres (3.273 km 2) Created: 1947 () Operated by: Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department: Parking: Over 3000 spaces: Website: Crandon Park
Location mi [2] km Old exit [10] New exit [2] Destinations Notes; Miami-Dade: Miami: 0.000: 0.000 — — US 1 south (South Dixie Highway) – Key West: Southern terminus of I-95 and south terminus of US 1 concurrency; to Dadeland Mall: 0.469: 0.755: 1: 1A: SR 913 (Rickenbacker Causeway / Southwest 26th Road) – Key Biscayne