Q. When Miami’s present court house opened what was it known for?

The Dade County Courthouse building was built between 1925 and 1928 by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown with August Geiger as associate. During the summer of 1928 the building opened to the public serving as the Dade County Courthouse and Miami City Hall. Some, now infamous people, made their way into the courthouse. In 1930 Al Capone was tried for perjury and in 1933 Giuseppe Zangara, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s would-be-assassin, was tried for attempted murder

A. A skyscraper or the "tallest building in the South"

(Dade County courthouse, ca. 1930. Credit: Verne O. Williams, Historical Museum of Southern Florida.)

Q. This pineapple plantation was sold to the Shoreland Company and turned into a $62 million development known as?

In the Homestead Act of 1862, the government decided to give away 160 acres of free land in the West and in Florida to each family who went. In the 1870’s a number of families moved to present day North Miami and its surrounding area as Homesteaders. By the early 1900’s these Homesteaders had a pineapple plantation, a grapefruit grove, and a coontie mill. During the 1920’s Land Boom, T.V. Moore’s former pineapple plantation in the North Miami area became much too valuable to be used for fruit growing.

 

A. Miami Shores

(A Good Wagon Load, ca. 1909. Credit: Leigh, Historical Museum of Southern Florida.)

Q. Name the birds that were shot almost to extinction in order to provide feathers for women’s hats.

Feathers adorned fashionable late-nineteenth century hats—so many that the birds who
contributed the feathers became endangered species. Plume hunters in the Everglades shot

out nests and slaughtered birds. Changing fashions and national laws ended the killing in the 1910s.

A. Egrets and Herons

 

(The cruelties of fashion: fine feathers make fine birds, ca. 1883. Credit: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (November 10, 1883), p. 184., Historical Museum of Southern Florida. )