Matheson Hammock Park & Marina
Saltwater atoll pool carved from limestone by Depression-era crews, tide-fed and ringed by palm-shaded walkways.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Matheson Hammock Park in Miami traces how a dye-fortune millionaire, William Matheson, handed Dade County eighty acres of untouched mangrove swamp in 1930, asking only that its wild beauty be preserved. You'll hear how Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps crews, working under landscape architect William Lyman Phillips starting in 1936, dredged and blasted through solid limestone by hand to shape something this coastline had never seen. It follows what those young men, with only hand tools, actually built along the bay.
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