The docks at Haulover Beach grew from the site of the original Lighthouse Dock, associated with the area's early reputation as a sportsman's paradise and with accounts that a man named Baker, around 1810, hauled fishing boats from the bay to the ocean. In 1926, Captain Henry Jones built the first dock here under a War Department permit. By 1937-1939, the Lighthouse Restaurant and the Ocean Bay Trailer Park shared the property. These early docks helped establish an international sport fishing tourist industry as charter boat fishermen pursued marlin, sailfish, and other big-game fish in Miami's Gulf Stream waters. An official weighing station of the Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament, the oldest and largest fishing contest in the world, stood beside the docks, and many record catches were certified there. Captains guided their charters beneath the hazardous Haulover Bridge through treacherous currents, and from 1942 to 1943 they also faced enemy submarines just outside the inlet, with some serving as sub-spotters while a Coast Guard vessel was moored here during World War II to protect civilians, making the site strategically important to the military at that time. In 1944, the Lighthouse Dock became part of Haulover Beach Park, and the Dade County Parks Department took over management and renamed it Haulover Beach Docks. In 1951-1952, the docks were replaced by a marina built farther north. The docks were home to captains, their boats, and the only women working as mates for their husbands, including early pioneer captains Henry Jones, George Hamway, Joe Reese, Slim Caraway, John Sacon, George Helker, Ralph Nemire, Harry Stone, Ira Gregory, Elsworth Stone, W.D. Murphy, Charles Smith, Harold Alford, Otto Reichert, Robert Paterson, Frank Kurek, Ernie Luebbers, B.C. Millard, and Paul Goerner. Others who contributed to the fleet's success included official dock photographer Doris Barnes, dock and weigh masters Norton and Waggoner, and taxidermist Al Pflueger, who documented the achievements of tourists and celebrities such as Robert Mitchum and Arthur Godfrey.