Originally home to many Florida cracker immigrants from Georgia and North Carolina, the neighborhood soon became popular with the owners of nearby businesses.

The houses reflect their original owners' rising social status and include examples of Mediterranean Revival, Mission, Craftsman, and Art Deco style residences.

[3] Buena Vista, Lemon City, and Little River were founded before the turn of the 20th century and represent some of the early settlements in Miami-Dade County.

Although preceded in age by pioneer Lemon City, a town located north, the village of Buena Vista dates its birth, development, and growth along with Miami’s.

The founding of Buena Vista dates back to the days when the immense rock ridge extending between the Atlantic Ocean and the Florida Everglades was covered by a dense pine forest.

The earliest history of the village is recorded in a survey made by government surveyors, and the locations of tracts are to this date still founded on this early document.

Gleason, a prominent and somewhat notorious figure in early Miami-Dade County politics, arrived in Miami after the Civil War, and he was elected lieutenant governor of Florida.

The arrival of the railroad in 1896 marked the end of an era for the pioneer bayfront village of Lemon City, which had enjoyed tremendous importance to the Miami area by virtue of its docks.

The train brought supplies to the rest of Dade County and lured people from the bayfront community to Miami and its outlying areas.