AGENTS DOVE AND GROGAN AVENUE

The Village Council dedicated a portion of Southwest 82nd Avenue (between 120th Street and 124th Street) as Agent Jerry Dove Avenue and Agent Benjamin Grogan Avenue on May 15, 2001.  The co-designation of Southwest 82nd Avenue was approved by Resolution 2001-37 adopted on May 8, 2001.  Agents Jerry Dove and Benjamin Grogan made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.  The two FBI agents were killed on April 11, 1986 during a gun battle in the normally quite neighborhood.  The gun battle with suspected bank robbers was described as the “bloodiest day in FBI history”.

CHAPMAN FIELD DRIVE

This east-west roadway (Southwest 124 Street) is named for the former Army air base established in 1918 and is currently the site of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Research Station located on Old Cutler Road along the Village’s eastern boundary.  The airfield was named for the first American aviator killed in battle during World War I – Manual Chapman.  The facility was transferred by the military to the USDA in 1923.

FLAGLER BOULEVARD

The portion of Southwest 102 Street, from South Dixie Highway to Southwest 74 Avenue, is named for Henry M. Flagler and is located in the Flagler Groves Estates Subdivision.  Mr. Flagler, a partner in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, was a wealthy industrialist who built the Florida East Coast Railway along the east coast of Florida and to the Florida Keys.  He is regarded as the “father” of Miami.

KENDALL DRIVE

This east-west roadway (Southwest 88 Street) is named for Henry John Boughton Kendall.  Mr. Kendall was one of the trustees of the Florida Land and Mortgage Company.  The land development company purchased from the State of Florida a vast area of land between Southwest 88 Street and Southwest 104 Street in 1883.  Mr. Kendall was responsible for managing the land holdings and operating company groves in the early 1900s.

KILLIAN DRIVE

This east-west roadway (Southwest 112 Street) is named for Dan Killian and his family.  Mr. Killian was a prominent resident and businessman in the Kendall Area from the 1920s to 1950s.  He served as a Dade County Commissioner, 1922 to 1926, and his influence is credited with the establishment of early institutional facilities in the Kendall area.

LUDLAM ROAD

This north-south roadway (Southwest 67 Avenue) is named for pioneer Walter Ludlam.  Mr. Ludlam moved from Ludlam, New York, which was named for his pioneering parents, to Miami in 1898.  When a road was needed along a Tamiami Trail area neighborhood, Mr. Ludlam and his neighbors pooled their money to help fund the construction of the roadway.  Dade County matched their $750 and the Dade County Commission named the road for Mr. Ludlam in 1914 in recognition of his efforts.  He was proprietor of the Ludlam Transfer Company and owner of a construction business.