Golden Beach

TODAY, Golden Beach, located near Aventura and Sunny Isles Beach, has 368 residents and is world renowned as ultra-luxury beachfront property where condo towers and commercial property is prohibited protecting the residents right to privacy. It is not uncommon for residents to expand and transform their properties to the latest signature designs. Read further for what may be typically found in a Golden Beach home.

HISTORY, In the early 1920’s, two brothers (R.W. & Henry Ralston) saw the possibilities of Miami Beach. They pictured a small, quiet community along the coast, devoted entirely to family life near enough to the large centers yet far enough away to insure the peace and quiet of suburban life. They looked around for such a site and finally purchased a strip of the beach ridge slightly less than a mile long at the extreme northern tip of Miami Dade County. With this narrow ridge, not much over a hundred yards wide at its widest part, went the swamp land to the west as far back as the then narrow canal-like passage which later developed into the Inland Waterway.

The Ralston Brothers founded what is now Golden Beach. They and their associates under the “Golden Beach Corporation” spent millions in cleaning out the mangrove swamps, pumping and hauling in fill to build up the swamps, in forming the three islands and the peninsulas between, in building bridges, laying pipe lines, water mains, underground electrical conduits, and in the building of streets. By 1928, a few houses had been built. The town was incorporated by 1929 and the Ralston brothers were elected as councilmen acting in concert with William A Mentzer, the towns first Mayor.