Punch Bowl

When the Expedition party sailed on the schooner "Margaret" to visit the Addison homestead at Cutler, they first stopped at the Punch Bowl for water. The Punch Bowl was a natural spring located on the coast about two miles south of the Miami River and Fort Dallas. It was also known as Devil's Punch Bowl or Harney's Punch Bowl (named for General William S. Harney). The spring was circular and rock-enclosed, giving it a bowl shape, and it was about four to five feet deep and three feet in diameter at the top. The site is located just south of today's Wainright Park and immediately north of Vizcaya.

Credits:

• Photo, Harney's Punch Bowl, Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers, University of Miami Libraries
• Photo, Devil's Punch Bowl - Miami, Florida, 1910s, State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory

Sources:

• "The Mystery of the Punch Bowl," by Frank H. Sweet, Florida Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1902
• Pamphlets, by Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1880
• Map showing location of the Punch Bowl, page 35 of "Miami During the Civil War, 1861-65," Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1993
• Charles W. Pierce, Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, 1970

References in the Texts:

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• April 8, Friday
• April 9, Saturday

For other topics referenced in the Expedition texts, please refer to the Index to Subjects and Names.
1892 Everglades Exploration Expedition : Three Digital Texts, 2015