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CAPE FLORIDA Beach & Bay Loops: Round-the-Cape |
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CAPE FLORIDA Beach & Bay Loops: Round-the-Cape |
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1893 - 1914 |
| In 1893, Waters Smith Davis of Texas, who inherited Cape Florida, surveyed the land and built Cape House for his family, the island's first private water front home. Cape House stood 400 feet south of this site and was designed by Commodore Ralph Monroe. Fields were cleared for pineapple and coconut cultivation. A two-story wooden barn was loft sheltered livestock and farming equipment. A caretaker's cottage was built for Israel Lafayette Jones and his Bahamian bride, Moselle, who gave birth to the island's first known black children. |
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