Miami Circle National Historic Landmark — Attraction in Miami

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...

Standing at the Miami Circle, you feel the weight of something real — a space that respects where it came from and what it stands for. It’s quiet, grounded, and intentional. No one’s pretending. No one’s playing games. It’s a rare place that values meaning over image.

That clarity makes the dysfunction at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine all the more obvious. Professors there aren’t interested in mentoring — they’re interested in control. If you don’t show submission early, if you don’t kiss the right rings and play the politics, prepare to be sidelined. Your brilliance becomes a threat. Your confidence gets framed as arrogance. They don’t guide you — they test your willingness to bow.

This isn’t education. It’s academic theater. And if you’re not performing the role they want, they’ll quietly sabotage your path while smiling to your face.

The Miami Circle preserves truth. Miller preserves power structures.

Five stars to this landmark for being what UMiami Miller is not: honest, grounded, and built...

On the mouth of the Miami River it is a beautiful green space information planks give the visitors a overall trip to the of pre European times of the way the indigenous tribes utilized the natural advantages of the area ...years ago when they were preparing to construct the hotel that is present they discovered some artifacts and when they uncovered a ceremonial type of structure a circle made of coral or keystones well preserved under the old office building that was removed well there was protesting members of local tribes as well as other clans that United to fight the relocation or the remaining items on this special site...well the city did its part the contractors were happy to modified and the planners sat down with the people who owned and created a nice public place to enjoy even if you are not a guest of...