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Pinecrest, FL - History
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Welcome to the Pinecrest Home page. The Pinecrest Home page provides as much information as possible on Pinecrest. Knowing Pinecrest’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Pinecrest’s Home page, you will also find Pinecrest’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Pinecrest has a population of 19183. 53% of Pinecrest’s inhabitants are Male, and 47 are female. 60.5% of Pinecrest is married and 79.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $936,681, and the average rent is $1,599. Household median income in Pinecrest is $164,419, and the individual median income is $58,922. Pinecrest’s Ethnic is the following: White(80.2%), Hispanic(41.7%), Multiple(10.8%), Asian(5.1%), Black(2%), Other(1.8%), Pacific(0.1%).
During the 1900s, Miami pioneer and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler used the property at U.S. 1 and Southwest 102 Street as a staging area during the construction of the Overseas Railroad to the Florida Keys. In the 1930s, the area's growth continued and the community began to evolve around one of the first tourist attractions established in the Miami vicinity – Parrot Jungle and Gardens.
Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 by Franz and Louise Scherr on property located at Red Road and Southwest 111 Street and over the years has become a tourist attraction whose visitors included Winston Churchill. The idea for Parrot Jungle began after Scherr, who owned and operated a feed and supply store in Homestead, and became intrigued with the idea of building an attraction where birds would "fly free".
To bring his vision to life, he rented 20 acres (8.1 ha) of hammock land for an annual fee of $25 (equivalent to $476.92 in 2021). Parrot Jungle was built as a winding nature trail dug through the coral rock and hammock land, indigenous to the area. All the natural plants were left undisturbed. The entrance was built on Red Road.
The attraction opened on December 20, 1936, to about 100 visitors. Each paid 25 cents admission to see and hear Scherr talk about his birds, trees and flowers. Since 1936, Parrot Jungle has attracted over a million visitors. On December 17, 2002, the Village of Pinecrest purchased the Parrot Jungle with the aim of developing the site as Pinecrest Gardens.
On March 8, 2003, the Pinecrest Village Council dedicated Pinecrest Gardens and officially opened it to the public as the village's newest municipal park. The attraction moved to a new waterfront location on Watson Island between downtown Miami and Miami Beach. It was relaunched as Parrot Jungle Island. The Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction which featured snakes, lizards and other reptiles and amphibians, was located on US 1 for many decades prior to closing in the mid-1980s. During the 1950s and 1960s, the area flourished with the development and construction of ranch-style houses on 1-acre (0.40 ha) lots which laid the foundation for the community's rural and lushly landscaped residential character. While still an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, what is now Pinecrest was the site of the 1986 FBI Miami shootout.
The shootout took place near 12201 Southwest 82nd Avenue. In August 1992, Pinecrest and the surrounding South Miami-Dade area were devastated by the effects of Hurricane Andrew. Many of the homes and businesses in the area were destroyed. In the subsequent years, the area was slowly rebuilt.Rapid growth and local issues during the 1990s inspired a movement led by residents Evelyn Greer Langlieb and Gary C.
Matzner to incorporate the area. The Village of Pinecrest was officially incorporated on March 12, 1996. Evelyn Greer was elected the first mayor and was succeeded, after serving two terms, by Matzner in 2004. The founding village council, including Greer, Cindie Blanck, Barry Blaxberg, Leslie Bowe, Robert Hingston, together with Village Manager Peter G.
Lombardi and Village Clerk Guido Inguanzo, are credited with establishing well-regarded municipal services including police, parks and recreation, building and planning services, and public works.
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