Join HistoryMiami Museum on our last Stiltsville cruise of the year! Enjoy a celebratory glass of champagne and light bites as HistoryMiami Museum’s Resident Historian, Dr. Paul George, recounts the history of the bay. Discover the storied past of Stiltsville, a series of colorful wooden houses built on the flats of Biscayne Bay. Learn how […]
Icons of the Bay: Stiltsville, Cape Florida Lighthouse, & the Miami Marine Stadium
Journey out onto the turquoise waters of Biscayne Bay with HistoryMiami Museum guide and local artist, Thom Wheeler Castillo. Discover how Miami’s natural landscape has shaped the city’s art scene as you cruise past some of the most iconic sites and structures on the bay – the Miami Circle, Stiltsville, the Cape Florida Lighthouse, […]
Stiltsville Survives Hurricane Irma
Perched at the edge of sea grass flats where the turquoise waters of Biscayne Bay meet the dark and choppy Atlantic Ocean, the cluster of wooden shacks has no protection from killer storms. But when Irma’s clouds cleared in early September, Stiltsville emerged relatively intact, to the relief of the volunteers dedicated to maintaining this […]
Stiltsville and Key Biscayne Sunset Cruise with Dr. George
Delight in this relaxing boat ride to one of our beautiful city’s most hidden gems. Our resident historian, Dr. Paul George, takes you to Stiltsville where you will learn how this once vivacious community of 27 buildings was transformed into the seven houses that remain amidst the turquoise waters of Biscayne Bay. Known in the […]
National Park Service is 100 Years Old Today
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created in the Department of the Interior a service to be called the National Park Service… 100 years ago today the National Park Service was born. The new federal bureau took over the […]