The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. Politically speaking the region is heavily Democratic Broward County is the second most reliably Democratic county in the state behind only Gadsden County Palm Beach County like Broward is largely Democratic as well especially amongst its Jewish community while the rest of Florida tends to follow Southern politics and vote more Republican with the exception of certain parts of Florida where Southern culture is not as influential With a majority Hispanic population in Miami-Dade Republican votes are mainly by older generations of Cuban Americans most of whom had fled to the United States to escape the Communist reign of Fidel Castro but Miami-Dade County still remains very Democratic when compared with most of Florida's other counties in the 2016 presidential election 62.3% of voters in the Miami metropolitan area voted Democratic This was the 6th highest of any metro area in the United States, The Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball play at Marlins Park in Little Havana, The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300.
. Geology Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year 1980s to 1990s Common graduation requirements - Roughly 15-20 graduate level courses, Tallahassee 2.1 Early history Downtown Miami is the historic heart of Miami and along with Coconut Grove is the oldest settled area of Miami with early pioneer settlement dating to the early 19th century Urban development began in the 1890s with the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway by Standard Oil industrialist Henry Flagler down to Miami at the insistence of Julia Tuttle Flagler along with developers such as William Brickell and George E Merrick helped bring developer interest to the city with the construction of hotels resorts homes and the extension of Flagler's rail line Flagler Street originating in Downtown is a major east-west road in Miami named after the tycoon; the Julia Tuttle Causeway crossing Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown in Edgewater is named in honor of Tuttle; 11 External links Weston After learning of the verdict of the McDuffie case one of the worst riots in the history of the United States,[citation needed] the Liberty City Riots of 1980 broke out By the time the rioting ceased three days later over 850 people had been arrested and at least 18 people had died Property damage was estimated at around one hundred million dollars; (52) 2.75 28 aircraft are based at this airport: 46% multi-engine and 54% jet. . .
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