Talk:Cutler Bay, Florida

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[edit] History

I have moved the History section to this talk page until references are supplied
per the Wikipedia Verifiability Policy. -- Dalbury(Talk) 21:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Originally two small towns were located within the area. The town of Peters stradled both sides of US 1 near Quail Roost Drive, where Thomas J. Peters had a large tomato farm. John H. Earhart owned 2,000 acres near Franjo Road where a small farming community developed. The town name was a combination of letters from his brothers name, Francis, and his own...so was born the town of "Franjo."

It was really not until David Blumberg began developing the land that the area became an organized community. In the early 1950’s Blumberg and his partner, Joe Segal, convinced owner Walter Blumberg to sell him 1,400 acres of undeveloped land. Blumberg actually named this area after the town of Cutler (now located within the village of Palmetto Bay, Florida), and the limestone ridge on which the land sits. The first housing development went up in 1954 and the Cutler Ridge Mall (now Southland Mall) opened in 1960. Street names in Cutler Ridge come from holidays and the ports of call Blumberg visited as a sailor. The area around the Mall was called Seminole Plains. What is now Lakes by the Bay was labeled Lincoln City as the streets and parks were laid out.