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SOUTH MIAMI PAST:
\nHISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE<\/h2>\n

The City of South Miami, like many municipalities in Florida, had an agrarian pioneer past in the late 19th century; a growth spurt brought about by the arrival of the railroad in the early 20th century; a period of uncertainty after the bust of the 1920s building Boom; a post-World War II revival; and decades of the development of a commuter suburb within the axis of an ever-growing metropolis (City of Miami).<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the Florida East Coast Railway was being built to Homestead, members of the Larkins community began to establish businesses near the new rail line that went through what was called \u201cLarkins Crossing\u201d (near the present day Metrorail line). A siding and a very small depot were added creating a station of sorts and a freight train came through every week, beginning in 1904. John Dowling opened a commissary near the crossing on what would later be called Sunset Drive, selling supplies to workers constructing the new rail line to the south.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t