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1956 Map of South Miami

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of South Miami
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

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Matheson Hammock County Park and the adjacent Fairchild Tropical Garden define the lush coastal boundary of this mid-century survey. While the established neighborhoods of Coral Gables and Coconut Grove appear as mature urban grids, the purple-tinted revisions of the late 1960s reveal rapid inland expansion through Glenvar Heights and Kendall. The landscape is a transition between formal tropical gardens and the industrial and educational hubs required by a growing population, including the University of Miami campus and the original Tamiami Airport in the northwest.

The residential boom of the post-war era is evidenced by the proliferation of neighborhood institutions, such as Southwest Country Day Sch, Epiphany Sch, and St Thomas Ch. These settlements are knit together by the Florida East Coast and Seaboard Coast Line railroads, alongside a maturing road network featuring the Palmetto Expressway. Significant landmarks like the VA Hospital and Miami Memorial Park Cem provide essential anchor points for genealogists and local historians tracing the development of South Miami-Dade.