Tequesta — 2001-2007

Number LXI (2001)

Complete issue

Elizabeth Virrick and the “Concrete Monsters”: Housing Reform in Postwar Miami
by Raymond A. Mohl.
Describes Elizabeth Virrick's 1940s-1960s endeavors for housing reform in Miami's black neighborhoods, particularly those in Coconut Grove.

The Miami Diocese and the Cuban Refugee Crisis of 1960-1961
by Francis J. Sicius

Chapman Field: The Evolution of a South Dade Army Airdrome
by Raymond G. McGuire
History of Chapman Field, as a training air base during World Wars I and II, and as a USDA agricultural experiment station.

Number LXII (2002)

Complete issue

The Papers of Albert Sawyer and the Development of the Florida East Coast, 1892 to 1912
by William G. Crawford, Jr.
Describes the land and waterway operations of the Florida Canal Company and its related enterprises. Sawyer was its CEO.
The company dredged waterways and canals to create an inland passage, the predecessor of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Clowning Around: The Miami Ethiopian Clowns and Cultural Conflict in Black Baseball
by Raymond A. Mohl.

South Florida’s Prelude to War: Army Correspondence Concerning Miami, Fort Dallas, and the Everglades Prior to the Outbreak of the Third Seminole War, 1850-1855
[edited] by Christopher R. Eck.
Excerpts from military letters written between 1850 and 1855. The letters illuminate the details of the circumstances that led to the outbreak of the Third Seminole War and the importance of Fort Dallas to American military strategy.

Number LXIII (2003)

Complete issue

On the Eve of Destruction: People and Florida's Everglades from the late 1800s to 1908
by Christopher F. Meindl.
An overview of people's perceptions of wetlands and the Everglades from the 1840s until 1908, when drainage and reclamation began in earnest.

Hell's Angel: Eleanor Kinzie Gordon's Wartime Summer of 1898
by Jacqueline E. Clancy.
Summarizes Gordon's work establishing and administering a convalescent hospital at Camp Miami during the Spanish-American War.
Wife of General William Gordon, who was stationed at Camp Miami. Mother of Girl Scouts founder Juliette (Daisy) Gordon Low, who assisted her mother at Camp Miami.

Early Miami through the Eyes of Youth
[by Ethel Westherly Sherman, edited] by William M. Straight, M.D.
Ethel Weatherly Sherman's reminiscences, compiled from an oral history interview and a manuscript. Memoir begins in 1896 when Sherman arrived as a child, and continues into her early adulthood. Topics include the Brickells, Julia Tuttle, Dr. Jackson, the Royal Palm Hotel, and a boating accident.

Number LXIV (2004)

Phineas Paist and the Architecture of Coral Gables, Florida
by Nicholas N. Patricios.
Biography of Coral Gables architect Phineas Paist. Describes buildings designed by him.

The War Offshore: German Submarines in the Waters off of Palm Beach County & Other Parts of Southeast Florida
by Eliot Kleinberg.
Describes German submarine attacks on American ships off the coast of Florida during World War II.

The Mitchells of South Dade: A Pioneer Saga
by Julie Mitchell Richardson.
History of the Perrine land grant, Cutler, and the Mitchell family. In 1896 the family acquired 10 acres from the Perrine Grant, at present-day Old Cutler Road and Mitchell Drive. Among other occupations, the family farmed, ran a dairy, and grew mangos, in Cutler, Kendall and near Tamiami Trail, from 1896 to the present.

Number LXV (2005)

Tempting the Fate: Bonus Veterans, the Florida Keys, and the Storm of the Century
by Willie Drye.
History of the 1935 hurricane, which killed 260 U.S. veterans in the Florida Keys.

Selling the Highland Park Subdivision
by Jim Broton, Ph.D.
History of the Highland Park subdivision and Golf Links addition, near present-day Jackson Memorial Hospital. This residential subdivision formed in 1911.

“We must picture and ‘Octopus’”: Anticommunism, Desegreagation, and the Local News in Miami, 1945-1960
by Gregory W. Bush, Ph.D.
An account of how anticommunist fervor linked desegregation and labor to communism in local news media.

Number LXVI (2006)

The Cuban Insurgent Colony of Key West: 1868-1895
by Consuelo E. Stebbins, Ph.D.
History of the Cuban émigré colony living in Key West and their support of Cuban independence from Spain.

Interracial Activism and the Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Miami
by Raymond A. Mohl, Ph.D.

Dr. James Alpheus Butler: An African American Pioneer of Miami Medicine
by Canter Brown, Jr., J.D. and Ph.D.

Number LXVII (2007)

William Barnwell Brickell in Australia
by Denise McMahon and Christine Wild

The Long Hard Fight for Equal Rights: A History of Broward County's Colored Beach and the Fort Lauderdale Beach 'Wade-ins' of the Summer of 1961
by William G. Crawford, Jr.

Foreigners from the Far North: Canadians in Miami and South Florida during the 1920s
by Eric Jarvis.

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