In another North Miami neighbourhood, known as El Portal, the historical architecture is considerable older. For years, homeowners and city workers have been digging up arrowheads and stone points, bits of broken pottery, and pieces of conch shell shaped into tools, the detritus of some 1,800 years of Indian life here. The neighbourhood is believed to be one of a dozen or more Tequesta village sites identified so far in Dade County.

Archaeologists working with the county prize the site, which they believe was a place for mortuary ceremonial practice, probably part of a Tequesta village founded as far back as AD 500. The mound came later, probably between about 1200 and 1500, in an area cleared of the mixed hardwood and pine forest that once covered much of Dade County.

There is no charge for entering the burial ground, which lies near the Little River canal east of I-95 near 79th Street and North Miami Avenue.