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The consistent Everglades flooding is fed by the extensive Kissimmee Caloosahatchee Miami Myakka and Peace Rivers in central Florida the Kissimmee River is a broad floodplain that empties directly into Lake Okeechobee which at 730 square miles (1,900 km2) with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m) is a vast but shallow lake Soil deposits in the Everglades basin indicate that peat is deposited where the land is flooded consistently throughout the year Calcium deposits are left behind when flooding is shorter the deposits occur in areas where water rises and falls depending on rainfall as opposed to water being stored in the rock from one year to the next Calcium deposits are present where more limestone is exposed. In 1926 the original Booker T Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district it was the only secondary black high school at the time in South Florida enrolling students from as far away as Broward and Palm Beach counties, Contents In 1810 parts of West Florida were annexed by proclamation of President James Madison who claimed the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase These parts were incorporated into the newly formed Territory of Orleans the U.S annexed the Mobile District of West Florida to the Mississippi Territory in 1812 Spain continued to dispute the area though the United States gradually increased the area it occupied in 1812 a group of settlers from Georgia with de facto support from the U.S federal government attempted to overthrow the Floridan government in the province of East Florida the settlers hoped to convince Floridans to join their cause and proclaim independence from Spain but the settlers lost their tenuous support from the federal government and abandoned their cause by 1813, 9 See also 6.5.2 Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project.

. Main article: Miami-Dade Transit 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City 2.2 Miami Campus Hydrology In addition many military schools supply stations and communications facilities were established in the area Rather than building large army bases to train the men needed to fight the war the Army and Navy came to South Florida and converted hotels to barracks movie theaters to classrooms and local beaches and golf courses to training grounds Overall over five hundred thousand enlisted men and fifty thousand officers were trained in South Florida After the end of the war many servicemen and women returned to Miami causing the population to rise to nearly half a million by 1950. Tri-Rail expansion Paul Cejas School of Architecture Building The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago the first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River with the main villages on the northern banks. . Family Part-time students: 476 According to the U.S Census Bureau in 2012 Miami had the fourth highest percentage of family incomes below the federal poverty line out of all large cities in the United States behind Detroit Michigan Cleveland Ohio and Cincinnati Ohio respectively Miami is also one of the very few cities in the U.S where the local government has gone bankrupt in 2001 on the other hand Miami has won accolades for its environmental policies: in 2008 it was ranked as "America's Cleanest City" according to Forbes for its year-round good air quality vast green spaces clean drinking water clean streets and citywide recycling programs. .