Browse Items (739 total)

Official segregation was not apparent within the 19th century community of Coconut Grove. This later map from the City of Miami's Planning Board depicts the institutional race-based demarcations that came with the region's "development."

Many of the northern visitors were eager to create new local industries based on regional resources. New Jersey engineer, Ezra Osborn, purchased beach land and imported coconuts from Cuba, Baracoa and Nicaragua to plant on the Florida coast.