The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site is a nationally significant archeological property that is the former location of the primary village of the Tequesta People, who were one of the first Native North American groups encountered by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513. Research at the site has produced an impressive body of data, which will likely make it one of the most intensively studied sites in the southern United States. The sites significance lies in well-preserved evidence of American Indian architecture, considerable materials related to patterns of regional and long-distance exchange, and association with the Tequesta people, who are significant because of the persistence of their culture following European contact and their association with the unique environment of the Everglades.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service