Located in Coconut Grove the Kampong is a 9 acre tropical garden that was once the winter home of David Fairchild and his wife Miriam who was the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell. In 1916 David and Miriam purchased the property from the "Duke of Dade" J.W. Ewan who homesteaded the property and had been living on it since 1882. David Fairchild was a world wide plant explorer and he created Fairchild Gardens in Coral Gables. He wrote for National Geographic as well as many books about plants. He filled his gardens with plants he collected from around the world when he worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington D. C.. He is responsible for introducing 30,000 plants into the U.S. including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, and bamboo. In 1926 the Kampong became the permanent home of the Fairchild's andtThey named the property for a Malay word meaning village. After the deaths of the Fairchild's the property was then purchased by botanist Dr, Catherine Hauberg Sweeney. She had the property placed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1985 donated the land to the National Tropical Botanical Garden. This is the only garden outside of Hawaii to be part of the National Tropical Garden.