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Located in the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza in Miami, Florida, HistoryMiami Museum is a 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m 2) facility and home to more than one million historic images and 30,000 three-dimensional artifacts, including a 1920s trolley car, gold and silver recovered from 17th- and 18th-century shipwrecks, artifacts from Pan American World Airways, and rafts that brought refugees to Miami.
The Naval Air Station Richmond Headquarters Building is a National Register of Historic Places-listed building in Miami, Florida.Built in 1942 as part of a blimp facility used in naval defense, the base was closed in 1961 and used for intelligence operations and military reserve activities until the base was significantly damaged by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, a large portion of south east Florida, including the area where Miami, Florida exists today, was inhabited by Tequestas.The Tequesta (also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos) Native American tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.
Vizcaya Museum also features Gilded Age technology. There are old doorbells, a dumbwaiter, and a rotary-dial telephone. Vizcaya's telephone system was the first in Miami-Dade County. Deering died in September 1925, on board the steamship SS City of Paris en route back to the United States. After his death Vizcaya was inherited by his two nieces ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Attendees at a Miami-Dade County historic preservation board meeting raise their hands to indicate support for the designation of a 1929 Pan American Airways hangar at Miami International Airport ...
Local museums will use the money to extend hours and create programs to increase visitorship. These Miami area museums just got a piece of a $40 million grant to bring in new visitors Skip to main ...
Pages in category "Museums in Miami-Dade County, Florida" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .