How was Miami St East Hawthorn named?

Answer 1

MIAMI STREET EAST HAWTHORN .HOW IT WAS NAMED.ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.tHIS STREET FIRST WENT THROUGH IN 1921 AS A RESULT OF THE SUBDIVISION OF THE THREE AND A HALF ACRE ATHOL ESTATE.THE HOMESTEAD ORIGINALLY BUILT BY THE ENGLISH WISEMAN BROTHERS IN 1873.THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS ESTATE WERE BETWEEN AUBURN RESERVE AND STONEYHURST ESTATE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH RESPECTIVELY.STREET FIRST APPEARS AS MIAMA.SOME THINK AN AMERICAN ORIGIN BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO PROVE THIS.THERE WAS A PROPERTY AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY KNOWN AS MIA MIA ABORIGINAL FOR CAMP OR HUT DWELLING PLACE NEAR THE CORNER OF RIVERSDALE AND TOORONGA ROADS.EITHER THE NAME IS A SPELLING MISTAKE OR IT IS NOT.MOREOVER THE NAME MIA MIA APPEARS ON A SANDS AND MACDOUGALLS STREET DIRECTORY IN 1943 A COPY OF WHICH I HAVE.I FEEL THAT BOTH MIAMA AND MIAMI WERE BOTH DERIVATIONS OF MIA MIA WHICH TODAY IS REFLECTED IN THE CURRENT NAME OF MIAMI STREET.tHE ORIGINAL CROWN PUCHASE IN 1853 WAS HELD BY NEHEMIAH GUTHERIDGE AND IT IS SEEN ON AN EARLY PLAN OF THE DISTRICT THAT HE HAD A HOME SOMEWHERE ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE CURRENT MIAMI ST BETWEEN THE PRESENT CURRAJONG ROAD AND THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF ATHOL ESTATE.IT IS UNKNOWN WHAT THAT NAME WAS HOWEVER.A RELATIVE LATER LIVING AT ATHOL WHICH IS NOW NUMBER EIGHT MIAMI,A RICHARD GUTHERIDGE.ATHOL ESTATE WAS DEFUNCY BY NINETEEN TWENTY AND THE LAST OWNER WAS FREDERICK WILLIAM ROWE.THE TWO STOREY HOME WAS RENOVATED SOMEWHAT AND MADE INTO FLATS AND WAS RENOVATED AGAIN IN 1936.IT BECAME KNOWN AS ATHOL FLATS.THE STREET WAS SLOW TO START AND DID NOT REALLY TAKE OFF WITH ANY GOUSES UNTIL AFTER 1930 OR SO PHILIP RAIN HISTORIAN FOR EAST HAWTHORN SEPTEMBER 25 2009.