Perrine, Florida

[1][2] While waiting to hear if Congress had approved his grant, Perrine took up residence with his family at Indian Key, Florida, in 1838.

This location was considered safer than the southern Florida mainland, as the Second Seminole War was still in progress.

Eventually homesteaders began to encroach on the grant, and in 1886 families that had started farms in the grant area formed a squatters union to fight eviction from their farms by the Perrine heirs.

[1] The community that became known as Perrine started as a railroad camp during the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway extension from Miami to Homestead.

East Perrine, which had a population of 7,079 in 2000, became part of the incorporated municipality of Palmetto Bay in 2002.