history of Brickell Key

In 1896, Henry Flagler organized a 9-foot (2.7 m) deep channel dug from the Miami River mouth, creating two islands in the process. In 1943, Edward N. Claughton, Sr. bought the Brickell Key islands and other land to combine them into a 44-acre (180,000 m²) triangle-shaped tract. In the late 1970s, Swire Properties bought most of the island from Claughton