Park
Matheson Hammock Park & Marina
9610 Old Cutler Rd, Coral Gables, FL 33156, USA
Saltwater atoll pool carved from limestone by Depression-era crews, tide-fed and ringed by palm-shaded walkways.
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.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.