Love, Walter Richeson (sold)
Walter Richeson Love (April 28, 1887 - August 23, 1937), who went by his middle name, was a civil engineer, surveyor, and map publisher active in Miami c. 1920. Love was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was active in Miami from at least 1915, when he was employed by Frederick S. Morse (1859 - 1920) as a commercial surveyor at the Model Land Company. He served in World War I (1914 - 1918), returning to Miami after the war. In 1920, he updated the 1918 Official Plat of Miami to reflect the city's rapid development. In 1922, he owned a commercial map shop in downtown Miami. He was a member of the American Association of Engineers and the Miami Engineering Society. He later took work with Alcoa Aluminum and returned to Knoxville, where he died in 1919 at age 50.
The second 'official' published map of Miami.
The Official Plat 'City of Miami' Florida.
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This is the 1920 second edition of the first official plat map of Miami, published at the height of its development during the Third Florida Land Boom. The map lays out the streets and development of Miami from roughly Northeast 39th Street to Kloeber Bay Fronts and illustrates streets, parks, private property holdings, hotels, utilities and more. It exhibits additional manuscript work dividing the city into 25 zones, as well as identifying Highland Park and the home of someone named 'Mary Louise' on SW Fourth St. (more details)