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Miami Beach is a seaside resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and artificial barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the beach from Miami.

Comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with Downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, the South Beach neighborhood collectively forms the commercial hub of South Florida.

According to the 2010 census, Miami Beach had a total population of 87,779. It has been one of the most important beach resorts in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century. In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world, comprising hundreds of hotels, apartments, and other structures built between 1923 and 1943. The district is represented in Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne, and Art Deco. The historic district is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Lenox Court to the west, 6th Street to the south, and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the north. The movement to preserve the architectural heritage of the Art Deco District was led by former interior designer Barbara Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.

In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, purchased the land for 75 cents an acre. The first structure to be built on this uninhabited waterfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, built in 1876 by the United States Salvage Service on approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked. The next step in the development of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut grove along the shoreline in the 1880s by New Jersey entrepreneurs Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was an unsuccessful venture. One of the investors in the project was farmer John S. Collins, who achieved success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, particularly avocados, on the land that would later become Miami Beach.

Meanwhile, across Biscayne Bay, the city of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad and further developed as a port when the Government Cut shipping channel was created in 1905, separating Fisher Island from the south end of Miami. Beach peninsula. Members of the Collins family saw the potential to develop the beach as a resort. This effort was launched in the early years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers (Miami bankers), and Indianapolis businessman Carl G. Fisher. Until then, the beach here was just the destination for ferry day trips from Miami across the bay.

By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear land, plant crops, oversee the construction of canals to bring their avocado crop to market, and establish the Miami Beach Improvement Company.

There were bathhouses and concession stands, but no hotels until Brown's Hotel was built in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive). Much of the interior landmass at the time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Cleaning it up, deepening canals and water bodies, and removing native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfilling for development was costly.

Once a 1,600-acre, jungle-covered sandbar three miles out into the Atlantic, it grew to 2,800 acres when dredging and filling operations were completed. *

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida