Spring Garden is a
neighborhood
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of
Miami
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,
Florida
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,
United States
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. The section of the city is one of the oldest purpose-built single-family residential neighborhoods in Miami and in the
Greater Miami area. It is bound by the
Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) to the north, the Seybold Canal (formerly
Wagner Creek and Northwest Eighth Street Road to the east, by the
Miami River to the southwest, and
West 12th Avenue (SR 933) to the west.
History
The area was first settled in the early 1840s when
William English established a
coontie starch mill in the area in the 1840s. By the 1850s,
William Wagner and a business partner reestablished a coontie mill on a Miami River
tributary
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which would be named after Wagner. A freshwater
spring was found on the tributary in the area, which caused
Henry Flagler
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to build the private Miami Water Company (where a Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Treatment plant is currently located) there in 1899.
By 1918, German-born Miami industrialist John Seybold dredged the
Wagner Creek and constructed a
turning basin in the creek, prompting area officials to rename the creek "Seybold Canal" in his honor; Seybold purchased and platted the
peninsula
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Etymology
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r plot of land immediately south of North 11th Street between the River and Creek for private, residential development, advertising it as one of Miami's premier housing communities into the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
In 1997 Spring Garden was designated as an official Historic District in the City of Miami. The summary statement from th
historic designation reportprepared by resident and architectural historian Prof. John Kneski states that "The Spring Garden Historic District is significant in the historical, archeological, and architectural heritage of the City of Miami. This neighborhood reflects the City’s growth from the mid-1910s to the 1940s and demonstrates the importance of the Miami River in the City’s history. Developed by an important pioneer businessman, Spring Garden is the oldest, intact, single family neighborhood still remaining along the Miami River."
Gallery
File:Seyboldcanal.jpg, The Hindu Palace and Turning Basin of Seybold Canal
File:Oolite_Columns_Entrance_to_Country_Club_Addition,_Spring_Garden,_Miami,_Florida_02.jpg, Oolite entrance columns to Country Club addition
References
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Neighborhoods in Miami