Description
Captured from the Brickell Bridge in downtown Miami, this photograph offers a glimpse of a train passing over the Miami River.
The Tequesta Indians, the region's earliest known inhabitants, established their major town on the river's north bank. The name Miami is often thought to mean sweet water in a Native American language.
In its natural state, the river featured rapids near its mouth, later removed during the dredging of the Miami Canal to facilitate wetland drainage. The river then split into North and South Forks, each leading to rapids marking the edge of the Everglades.