Miami Circle National Historic Landmark

Gerardo Garcia

Most historic spot in the city of Miami. Site of the Brickell trading post in 1880. Site of Tequesta village from about 2000 years ago. Now the neighborhood dog park.

Sourav Kumar Ukil

Nice place to sit around, a bit different than other popular places of Miami ..

Garrett Kusmack

Not much to it but neat to see once. It’s mainly a dog park.

Zandrea Penn

This is an awesome waterfront park to hang out and take your dog. Most people who don't live in the Miami Brickell area wouldn't understand how limited the space is here for dogs to play. The closest 'designated' dog park is over 10 miles away. Most people in this area do not have backyards and this space is perfect for dogs to get exercise. The park has a drinking fountain for dogs, and humans. Many places to sit and great views. No public restrooms, no public parking. Parking is available via Valet at the W Hotel. The Mary Brickell Park stretches from Brickell Avenue east to Biscayne Bay, where it looks across to Brickell Key. The Miami Circle is located within the Mary Brickell Park. It is also known as Miami River Circle or Brickell Point. The land was first used by the Tequesta Tribe. Archaeological evidence reveals that this site was in use from 500 BC to ca. AD 1000. In 1871, Mary and William Brickell built a house at what is today the WHotel and Brickel Icon. Here in the Miami Circle the Brickell family opened a trading post where the Native Americans would lay out blankets on the Brickells’ lawn, trading their hides and fruits for gold, silver, food, trinkets, and sewing machines. In 1873, a typhoid fever epidemic struck. Mary turned the Brickells’ home into a hospital and used the skills she learned as a nurse during the Civil War to treat settlers and Native Americans alike. During this time the area of land located south of the family home was used as a cemetery. In 1921, a year before she died, Mary donated Brickell Park to the City of Miami. The one stipulation was that if Miami didn’t use the property for the purpose of a public green space in perpetuity, the land would revert back to the Brickell family. Mary was buried alongside her husband William in a mausoleum in Brickell Park. In 1946, Maude Brickell, the youngest of the Brickells’ eight children, moved the remains to the Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum in Little Havana. Although the Mausoleum still stands it no longer holds the remains of the Brickell family. However the park area near the Mausoleum is said to still house many unmarked graves.