Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Mooney, R. A. 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.126  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        R. A. MOONEY, for many years, was an active business man in the North,
but since 1917 has been a resident of Miami. He has achieved something more
than ordinary success in the real estate field, his outstanding achievement
being Little River Gardens, one of the most interesting suburban developments
in the Miami District.
	Mr. Mooney was born in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, but when a child
he was taken by his parents to Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. He was reared
and educated there, and he still has some property interests in Henry County.
Mr. Mooney was in business in Boston and New York for about twenty years, and
it was early in 1917 that he moved to Miami.
	His developments at Little River, five miles north of the City on the 
Dixie Highway, have covered a remarkably brief period of time. He made his 
original purchase of land there in the fall of 1920, and systematic development 
was started in the spring of the following year. Since then under his direction 
the land has been improved and put on the market in eight subdivisions, 
comprising a total of ninety-one acres. The properties are known as Little
River Garden lots, and have proved a great success as home sites for the people
of moderate means.
	Mr. Mooney built on these plots seventy-two houses outright, and has 
helped build numerous others by financing the lot owners and accepting small 
monthly payments. Many have acquired homes there by expenditures amounting to a 
little more than monthly rentals. In this way Mr. Mooney has not only made 
money for himself but for his clients as well. The majority of the customers at 
Little River Gardens have been of the steady, thrifty working-class, and these 
people comprise an ideal community. Values have doubled and tripled in the 
Little River community, which is ideally situated on the great Dixie Highway, 
close to Biscayne Bay and to Miami, so that the permanency of property values 
is assured. Mr. Mooney owns a valuable property in the business section of the 
town, and has been the active spirit in everything effecting the community. 
While there were only twenty-six houses in that section in 1920, there are now 
262 houses, practically all of them built since spring of 1921, and within a 
radius of one-half mile. Previous to this time there had been but two houses
built in nine years. The little village is one of which any man might be proud,
and the credit of bringing about this wonderful change truly belongs to Mr.
Mooney.
	


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