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Waltus L. Watkins established the 80-acre livestock farm he called Bethany Plantation in 1839. [8] Watkins Mill was built in 1859-1860. Watkins built housing for the mill workers nearby, creating one of the first planned communities in North America. The community was effectively self-sufficient, the mill producing yarn and wool cloth.
The Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club is a historic U.S. hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. It is located at 3925 Collins Avenue. On October 5, 2005, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [1] It was designed by architect Roy France. A 1956 addition was designed by Melvin Grossman. [2]
Watkins Mill Town Center, a proposed development in Gaithersburg, Maryland This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 17:55 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Mutiny went from being the premier business hotel in the area to a "drug den" over the course of the 1980s, [10] gaining a reputation as a preferred hotel of "cocaine cowboys". [11] Ricardo "Monkey" Morales used it as an office, and one drug dealer, Carlos Fernando Quesada, had a private table. [ 12 ]
Its original beach club was destroyed in a hurricane in 1921; [3] the new beach club was added in 1928, and an 18-hole golf course was added next. [4] The Gasparilla Inn Historic District is a 25 acres (10 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It includes the inn, ten guest cottages built ...
This oceanfront hotel was originally called The Palm Beach Inn and later renamed The Breakers in 1901 because guests often requested rooms "over by the breakers." [1] Further, the Royal Poinciana Hotel underwent significant expansions in 1899 and 1901, which increased the number of rooms to 1,081, allowing accommodations for nearly 2,000 guests ...
In 1923 or 1924, a mill was built at Willow by the McGowin-Foshee Lumber Company from Alabama. The company leased 54,000 acres of land for logging. James I. Robbins, Bruce Robbins and James A. Robbins bought it in 1926. The Robbinses also bought 40,000 acres of woodlands that ran south to where State Road 70 is today.
The Saxony Hotel, completed in 1948, was one of the first luxury resorts on Miami Beach. Following the success of the Saxony, other hotels emerged on the opulent beach front. The hotel was designed by architect Roy F. France and built and owned by George D. Sax. George Sax was perhaps best known as the president and chairman of Chicago's ...