Index

References to illustrations are italicized.

Adams Key, 8, 17 Florida East Coast Railway, 14, 19 Agriculture, 14-16, 22-23 Florida land boom, 20-21 Archeology: Native American, 9; shipwrecks, 11- Florida Reef, 9 12 Florida Straits, 9, 11, D-1 Arsenicker Keys, 9 Fossey, Ralph A., 26 Automobile, 20 Fowey Rocks Lighthouse, D-1-2, D-1 Bahamas: as center of wrecking industry, 12; Geiger, August, 27-28, 36, A-1, B-1-4 immigration of residents to Florida Keys, 13; Geology, 7-9 as Source of smuggled goods, 24 Gifford, John C., 24-25 Baker, Benjamin, 14 Gold Key, 8 Biscayne Bay: archeology, 9-10; conservation Harrison, Milton W., 26, A-10 efforts in, 25-26; construction of artificial Hawk Channel, 9 islands in, 20,22; discovered by Ponce de Honeywell, Mark C., 26-30, A-1, B-4; 26, 31 Leon, 9; homesteading in, 14-15, 17; Native Honeywell, Olive Lutz, 26-37, A-1 American settlement around, 10-11; resort Hubbard, Eugenia, 30 development in, 23-24; proposed road Hunt, Jack, 27, A-1 construction across, 25; smuggling in, 24; Hurricanes: 1926, 16, 21, 26; 1941, A-2; Andrew wrecking in, 12 (1992), 36, A-2-11; King (1950), A-2 Biscayne National Monument: established, 1,26; Indian Key, 16 renamed, 1. See also Biscayne National Park Indian tribes: Mikasuki, 10; Seminole, 10-11; Biscayne National Park: archeology in, 10-11; Tequesta, 9-10. See also Native Americans. description of, 1, 8; establishment of, 1,26; Islandia, 25 maps of, 2, 8 Key Biscayne, 8 Boca Chita Key: depicted, 4, 28; expansion of, 8, Key Largo limestone, 7 26; Honeywell complex on, 26-35, A-1-11; Key West: center of wrecking industry, 12; town location, 8; maps, 8, E-3 established, 13 Bootlegging, 24 Kotcher, Charles W., 23 Breckenridge, John C., 13-14 Ledbury Lodge, 24 Brookfield, Charles, 24 Lime industry, 16 Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, 24 Miami Beach: development of, 20-21, 20; growth Camp, Leon Angle, 27, A-1 of, 21; social life, 21-22, 27. See also August Church, Jim, 27, A-1 Geiger. Civil War, 13-14 Miami oolitic limestone: geologic formation of, 7; Cocolobo Club, 23-4, 23 used as building material, 28, A-1-10 Committee of One Hundred, 27,30 Miami, 19-20 Conchs, 13, 16 Mikasuki Indians, 10 Dixie Highway, 20 Minneapolis Honeywell Heat Regulator Company, Elliott Key: agriculture on, 14-16; and the Civil 27 War, 14; location, 8; resort development 24; Munroe, Ralph Middleton, 14, 21 as base for smugglers, 24. See also Islandia. Native Americans: in Biscayne Bay, 9-11; in Emerman, Florence, 30 wrecking industry, 12 Fisher, Carl, 20-4, 26; 23 Old Rhodes Key, 8, 17 Flagler, Henry M.: railway development by, 19; Overseas Railroad, 19, 24 resort development by, 23 Perrine, Henry, 16 G-2 Biscayne National Park: Historic Resource Study

Pineapple industry, 14-16, 15 Plantation Key, 14 Ponce de León, Juan, 9 Ragged Keys, 8. See also Boca Chita Key. Railroads, 14, 19, 21, 24 Sands Key: location, 8; Native American archeology on, 10 Seiberling, F. A., 26 Seminole Indians: settlement around Biscayne Bay, 11; tribe formed, 10-11 Shipwrecks: Nuestra Senora de Populo, 11; HMS Fowey, 11; Alicia, 12. See also Wrecking industry; Archeology. Snowden, Jim, 23 Soldier Key, 8, 23, D-1 Stiltsville, 8, 24 Swan Key, 8 Sweeting, Asa, 15 Tequesta Indians, 9-10 Totten Key, 8, 17 Wood, Gar, 24 Wrecking industry, 11-13, 12. See also Shipwrecks.