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Miami-Dade County Florida
Alternate Street Names
and
Parks .. Plaques .. Monuments
Cuban & Latin Related Names
(Coral Gables Streets not included)

            For some time, the City of Miami, Hialeah, other County municipalities, Dade County (now Miami-Dade County) and the State of Florida have been co-designating streets with alternate street names.   The renaming can be one block, two blocks, the entire street, or just an intersection. Many streets can have multiple alternate street names.  In some cases only one sign is placed on the designated street, others have signs every block.  This is not a new concept.  The Federal Government has been doing this for years on a much smaller scale.

            The original name of the street remains but another sign is placed over or under the original name as a co-designated street name.  The County places the signs for the cities which keeps them all uniform. 

(There may be an exception for Coral Gables which has concrete,
ground level street names on most streets.)




Usually the state co-designated roads have an ornate sign which stands alone, such as an historic marker. The city or county sometimes incorporates the state designation in overhead signs.
There is usually only one of these signs, maybe two, on each designated roadway by the state.

            Most people in the County have no idea who most of these people are that have streets named after them.  This list was sent to politicians, lawyers, city and county officials and educators and most had no idea who the people were.

            The local newspapers have written some critical articles concerning some of these names but have failed to identify all the names.  It use to be simple to get your name on a street, complete a form, pay a fee, pay for each sign and your name was on a street.  Often the City or County would pick up the fees, but most co-designated streets were placed by organizations or groups of individuals.

            After one case where a street was named for an individual, that individual was convicted of drug trafficking so the rules were tightened.  New rules required that streets be named for a deceased person.  Further rules were later enacted requiring that the person had to have made a contribution to the county in order to have a street named for him/her. (In some cases, such as the "Latin District", selected names were chosen although they had nothing to do with the City or County.)


  
The co-designation does not only occur with Cuban/Latin/Hispanic names and places.

           
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WELCOME TO LITTLE HAVANA USA ...
Is a small archway placed by the Latin Quarter Association
at the corner of NW 12 Avenue and 1st  Street.


WELCOME TO LITTLE HAVANA USA
... Is also a painted "billboard" on the side of a bank building at SW 8 Street and Beacom Boulevard which is a block east of SW 27th Avenue. It use to be Republic National Bank.





In 2001 it was changed.



In 2002 it was changed again!




Changed again sometime around 2007 or before.




Change as of  April 2010.




CO-DESIGNATED CUBAN STREET NAMES -- MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

GO TO STREETS A-F


GO TO STREETS G-Z


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