Lillian Frow Peacock and Eunice Peacock Merrick Photograph Collection 1860-1946 (bulk 1880s).

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Lillian Frow Peacock and Eunice Peacock Merrick Photograph Collection 1860-1946 (bulk 1880s).

The Lillian Frow Peacock & Eunice Peacock Photograph Collection depicts primarily the earliest settlers of Coconut Grove and Miami. The collection includes portraits of the Peacocks, the Frows, and other families as well as historically notable places such as the Peacock Inn and the Coconut Grove School. Box 2 includes a handcrafted menu from the first Biscayne Bay Yacht Club dinner at the Peacock Inn in 1891. The photograph album in box 4 includes portraits of the Peacock's English relations as well as a few of their Coconut Grove and Miami.

4.00 Boxes (1 linear foot).

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Peacock, Lillian

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The Frows and the Peacocks were among the initial settlers of the Miami/Coconut Grove area. Simeon and his son John Frow were appointed keepers of the Cape Florida Lighthouse in 1859 and 1868 respectively. John Frow was also the first person to buy property in Coconut Grove; his brother Joseph worked as John's assistant at the lighthouse and was one of the initial board to establish a school for the Coconut Grove district. In 1887, Joseph Frow traveled by foot to Lake Worth to register the requi...

Merrick, Eunice Peacock.

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Peacock family.

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Otto G. Richter Library

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Peacock Inn (Miami, Fla.)

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Frow family.

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Bay View House (Miami, Fla.)

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