MIAMI SPRINGS, FL – January 21, 2016 – The historic Curtiss Mansion in Miami Springs invites the general public to enjoy an interesting and informative pictorial overview of Key Biscayne’s 500+ year recorded history, one of the longest in North America, on Thursday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. It will be presented by authors Kirsten Hines and…

High over Palm Beach By Augustus Mayhew Tuesday, August 11, 2009 The Florida Years In 1907, Glenn Curtiss was a motorcycle manufacturer; seventeen years later, he was a multi-millionaire as the “Father of Naval Aviation” and retired from the airplane business, moved to South Florida and became a land developer. He established the…

High over Palm Beach By Augustus Mayhew Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Curtiss and Wanamaker Partner for Aviation In 1914, Wanamaker and Curtiss had formed the America Trans-Oceanic Company, named for their intent on making the first non-stop trans-Atlantic crossing. Unfortunately, it was delayed by the onset of World War I; then, ill-fated, when…

High over Palm Beach By Augustus Mayhew Tuesday, August 11, 2009 In 1911, John McCurdy brought a Curtiss plane to Daytona, Key West and Palm Beach for demonstration flights. During McCurdy’s flight over Palm Beach, the world’s first wireless message was reportedly sent from a plane to the ground. The following season there…

In addition to his flight over Palm Beach in 1911, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy flew similar demonstrations in Daytona and Key West. Seaplanes utilized the dock in front of the Royal Poinciana Hotel as a point of departure.Courtesy of Historical Society of Palm Beach County. High over Palm Beach By Augustus Mayhew Tuesday,…