Editing Coconut Grove (section)

== History ==
[[File:Coconutgrove2007.jpg|thumb|Skyline of Coconut Grove, as seen from its respective [[Metrorail (Miami)|Metrorail]] station]]
[[File:Coco Grove FL womens club01.jpg|thumb|The clubhouse of the [[Woman's Club of Coconut Grove]], built in 1921 and designed by Miami architect [[Walter de Garmo]]]]
Several waves of immigration established Coconut Grove, the first in 1825, when the [[Cape Florida lighthouse]] went into operation, [[Lighthouse keeper|kept]] by John Dubose.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-15 |title=A Brief History Of Miamis Coconut Grove |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/florida/articles/a-brief-history-of-miamis-coconut-grove |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Culture Trip |language=en}}</ref> The settlers primarily came from the Northeastern United States, in addition to British and Bahamian immigrants.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-15 |title=A Brief History Of Miamis Coconut Grove |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/florida/articles/a-brief-history-of-miamis-coconut-grove |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Culture Trip |language=en}}</ref> They included sailors, naturalists, and artists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-15 |title=A Brief History Of Miamis Coconut Grove |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/florida/articles/a-brief-history-of-miamis-coconut-grove |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Culture Trip |language=en}}</ref> Many Black Bahamian immigrants were hired to construct the historical landmarks in and around Coconut Grove.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Bahamian Work Force |url=https://vizcaya.org/beyond-vizcaya/the-great-freeze-copy-2/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Vizcaya |language=en-US}}</ref> They were believed to be the only people capable of withstanding the extreme heat and humidity, as well as the large mosquito population.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mohl |first=Raymond A. |date=1987 |title=Black Immigrants: Bahamians in Early Twentieth-Century Miami |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147810 |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=271–297 |jstor=30147810 |issn=0015-4113}}</ref>

Dr. Horace P. Porter is credited for coming up with the name when, in 1873, he rented a home from Edmond D. Beasley's widow, who homesteaded 160 acres of bay-front property.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Post Office Granted for Cocoanut Grove in 1873 |url=https://miami-history.com/news/post-office-granted-in-cocoanut-grove-in-1873/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Miami History Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> He lived there for only a year, but during that time, he established a post office which he named “Coconut Grove.”<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/nets/offices/grove/ |title=City of Miami – Neighborhood Enhancement Teams |access-date=2011-10-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105060853/http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/nets/offices/grove/ |archive-date=January 5, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>Planning Your Vacation in Florida, Miami and Dade County [WPA Guide to Miami], Northport, New York: Bacon, Percy & Daggett, 1941, page 49.</ref>

The first hotel on the [[South Florida]] mainland was located in Coconut Grove.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ingraham Expedition: Peacock Hotel in Coconut Grove |url=https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/GroveHotel.htm |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=www.uflib.ufl.edu}}</ref> Called the Bay View Inn (later known as 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 owners of a wholesale meat business in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coconut Grove {{!}} Community Guide {{!}} Carole Smith Team |url=https://veryspecialhomes.com/neighborhoods/coconut-grove |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=veryspecialhomes.com |language=en}}</ref> Coconut Grove's first [[black people|Black]] settlement, in the 1880s, was established by [[The Bahamas|Bahamian]] laborers who worked at the Peacock Inn.<ref>Joanne Hyppolite. ''Black Crossroads''. South Florida History, the magazine of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Volume 37, No 1, 2009, p. 13</ref> [[The Barnacle Historic State Park]] is the oldest house in [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]] still standing in its original location.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Barnacle {{!}} Florida State Parks |url=https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-barnacle |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=www.floridastateparks.org |language=en}}</ref> It was built in 1891, and was home to [[Ralph Middleton Munroe]], also known as "The Commodore" for being the first commodore and founder of the [[Biscayne Bay Yacht Club]], an American yacht designer, and early resident of Coconut Grove.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ingraham Expedition: Ralph M. Munroe |url=https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/MunroeRM.htm |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=www.uflib.ufl.edu}}</ref>

Formerly an independent city, Coconut Grove was annexed by the city of Miami in 1925.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Livingston | first = Grant | title = The Annexation of the City of Coconut Grove | journal = Tequesta | volume = LX | pages = 32–55 | publisher = Historical Association of Southern Florida | location = Miami, Florida | year = 2000 | url = http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/2000/00_1.pdf?bcsi_scan_4D7E231455658879=0&bcsi_scan_filename=00_1.pdf | issn = 0363-3705 | access-date = 2008-12-11 | archive-date = July 19, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719193330/http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/2000/00_1.pdf?bcsi_scan_4D7E231455658879=0&bcsi_scan_filename=00_1.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> In the 1960s, bay-shore Coconut Grove served as the center of South Florida's [[counterculture of the 1960s|youth countercultural movement]], notably hosting several [[love-in]]s<ref>{{cite news |title=Grove "Love-In" Swings Under Eyes of Police |first=Bill |last=Bjebre |author2=Kenneth Harrell |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MaEyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1586%2C3726474 |newspaper=[[The Miami News]] |date=September 8, 1969 |access-date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> and concerts (including a now-infamous [[The Doors#Miami incident (March 1969)|Doors concert]] at [[Dinner Key Auditorium]])<ref>{{cite news |title=In Defense of a Generation: 'Hippies are Beautiful' |author=Art Grace |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ccMyAAAAIBAJ&pg=639%2C4393206 |newspaper=[[The Miami News]] |date=March 11, 1969 |access-date=April 29, 2011}}</ref> during the latter part of the decade.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coconut Grove: Hip Little Village Under the Palms |first=Jim |last=Woodman |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/596916042.html?dids=596916042:596916042&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+23%2C+1972&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Coconut+Grove&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713185035/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/596916042.html?dids=596916042:596916042&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+23,+1972&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Coconut+Grove&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=July 23, 1972 |access-date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> The Bahamian community continued to grow in Coconut Grove through the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/coconut-grove/article159321614.html|title=Echoes of the Summer of Love can still be heard 50 years later in Coconut Grove|last=Birmingham|first=Jim|website=miamiherald|language=en|access-date=2019-04-21}}</ref>

A surge of commercial development in Coconut Grove was driven by the construction of three major residential complexes during the late 1970s and early 1980s: Yacht Harbour Condominiums in 1975; [[Grove Isle]], a condominium, club, and hotel complex, in 1979; and L'Hermitage in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The resurgence of Coconut Grove |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/coconut-grove/article4199797.html |website=Miami Herald}}</ref> This was followed by the opening of 2575 S. Bayshore Drive in 1982 and the 1983 opening of Grove Towers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/|title=The New Face of Coconut Grove|last=Baum|first=Laurie|date=August 27, 1984|work=Miami Herald, The|page=1BM Record: 8403030190}}</ref> Further development was proposed for Grove Isle in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article31848975.html|title=Developer's plans roil Grove Isle tranquility|last=Michot|first=Walter|website=miamiherald|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Preserve Grove Isle|date=2015-09-04|title=Grove Isle Miami|url=https://preservegroveisle.wordpress.com/|url-status=live|access-date=June 28, 2019|website=Grove Isle Updates|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606162859/https://preservegroveisle.wordpress.com/ |archive-date=June 6, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article19268853.html|title=Grove Isle development tangled in web of lawsuits|last=Ducassi|first=Jay|website=miamiherald|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref>