Miami's Edgewater Neighborhood

About this episode

This episode explores the development and history of Miami's Edgewater neighborhood.

This podcast episode features the story of development of the Edgewater neighborhood in Miami, Florida. What was part of an area referred to as 'North Miami', best known as Miami's first saloon and red-light district, Edgewater evolved out of the city's first suburbs that were developed after the saloon district was cleared out in 1908. When a Miami attorney turned developer began creating residential communities north of the city, one of those suburbs was called 'Edgewater' given its proximity to Biscayne Bay. After the annexation of North Miami in 1913, the neighborhood reference for the former northern suburbs was Edgewater encompassing from roughly north of the Venetian Causeway to the Julia Tuttle Causeway and east of Biscayne Boulevard.

People in this episode

Host: Casey M. Piket

Topics covered

• neighborhood development
• Miami history
• Edgewater
• urban evolution
• saloon district
• suburban growth

Keywords

• Edgewater
• Miami
• neighborhood development
• Biscayne Bay
• North Miami
• saloon district
• urban history

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Edgewater, Miami, North Miami, Biscayne Bay, Venetian Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway

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