Mercy mess
Rebecca Wakefield has a good column in The Sun Post on the Mercy mess. She mentions "Grove blogs", I assume she means this one. I wish she had mentioned our name.
posted by Tom Falco at 5:57 PM
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Sorry, to just ask this here, but I'm curious. I'm a long time resident of Miami and I was wondering what the actual boundaries of The Grove are. All I know is the Cocowalk area since I used to hang out there. The area seems extremely polarized there, racially I mean. But what is the rest of the Grove? Does it extend all the way to Vizcaya? Mercy Hospital?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_Grove,_Florida
Coconut Grove, originally spelled Cocoanut Grove, is a unique neighborhood located in the City of Miami, Florida in Miami-Dade County.
The area is defined as southeast of US 1, from N. Prospect Ave as the southern border to the intersection of US 1 and Brickell Ave as the northern border (includes Mercy Hospital the Planetarium and Viscaya), all the way to Rickenbacker Causeway. The western border is Le Jeune Road and the eastern border is Biscayne Bay. Technically, all of Coconut Grove has a zip code of 33133, which actually extends the area north of US 1 into what is called "Silver Bluffs".
Cocoanut Grove was incorporated in 1873.
City of Miami was incorporated on July 28, 1896 (23 years after that of Cocoanut Grove).
Cocoanut Grove was annexed by the City of Miami (illegally by some accounts) in 1925.
Several waves of immigration established Coconut Grove, the first in 1825, when the Cape Florida lighthouse went into operation and was manned by John Dubose. The post office was established in 1873, around the same time that the area saw an influx of Americans from the Northeastern US, as well as British immigrants. Coconut Grove's first black settlement, in the 1880s, was established by Bahamian craftsmen and sailors and their families. The first hotel on the south Florida mainland was located in Coconut Grove. Called the Bay View Inn (later known the Peacock Inn), it was built in 1882, on the site of present-day Peacock Park, by English immigrants Isabella and Charles Peacock, who had been the owner of a wholesale meat business in London.
The Barnacle Historic State Park is a five acre Florida State Park located on Biscayne Bay, in Coconut Grove, Florida. The Barnacle House is the oldest home in its original location in Miami-Dade County.
Built in 1891, the house is situated on the shore of Biscayne Bay. It was the home of Commodore Ralph Munroe, one of Coconut Grove’s founders who started the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and was a leading designer of sailing yachts. The Florida Park Service acquired the remaining five acres of Munroe's original 40-acre
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