A sort of reanimated wetland is located here. It’s known as Bimini Slough, and it’s a small ecology park. But there was once a natural wetland here, complete with a geothermal spring that was discovered during oil exploration. Said spring – variously gauged between 103° and 112° Fahrenheit – warmed the waters of the Bimini Baths, an enormous public bathhouse which opened here on December 31st, 1902. (The location was considered “remote” in those days.) Its first proprietor was Dr. David W. Edwards (1849-1917), a dentist-turned-insurance exec who knew “Bimini” as the fabled location of the Fountain of Youth. (Bimini is also a group of islands in the Bahamas.) Bimini Place was named in 1904; a hotel and an outdoor swimming pool were added later. The complex went out of business in 1951.
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