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Pinecrest

The Village of Pinecrest

Pinecrest was incorporated on March 12, 1996 and is situated twenty minutes south of Downtown Miami and Miami International Airport. Henry Flagler used the land at US1 and Southwest 102 Street as a staging area during the construction of the Overseas Railroad to the Florida Keys in the early 1900s. By the 1930s, the community began to evolve around Parrot Jungle and Gardens, one of the first tourist attractions established in the Miami a...

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