The Mayaimis built ceremonial and village earthwork mounds around Lake Okeechobee similar to those of the Mississippian culture and earlier mound builders Fort Center is in the area occupied by the Mayaimis in historic times They dug many canals as other earthworks to use as pathways for their canoes the dugout canoes were a platform type with shovel-shaped ends resembling those used in Central America and the West Indies rather than the pointed-end canoes used by other peoples in the southeastern United States, In 2010 1.9% of the population considered themselves to be of only American ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity.) while 0.5% were of Arab ancestry as of 2010, In 2010 the three largest denominations in Florida were the Catholic Church the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church. The urban bypass expressway in greater Fort Lauderdale is the Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869) connecting the northern Broward County coast at I-95 and Deerfield Beach to I-595 and I-75 at Alligator Alley in Sunrise, Miami Florida Business directory, In 1937 the local Ku Klux Klan raided La Paloma an LGBT nightclub After the non-lethal raid the nightclub became a site of a more solidified LGBT community and resistance against conservative sexual laws. 3.2.3 Concourse G Pompano Beach 99,845 78,191 Broward Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades. In 2017 Florida became the United States' eighth largest exporter of trade goods Florida's top countries for export are Brazil Canada Mexico Germany and Colombia in 2017 Florida became the United States' tenth largest importer of trade goods Florida imported US$75.4 billion worth of goods globally in 2017 the value of Florida's imports equals 3.2% of United States' overall imported products for 2017 Florida's top countries for imports are China Mexico Canada Germany and France.
; Miami Design District, 10 Media Sandalfoot Cove, Miami experienced a very rapid growth up to World War II in 1900 1,681 people lived in Miami Florida; in 1910 there were 5,471 people; and in 1920 there were 29,549 people as thousands of people moved to the area in the early 20th century the need for more land quickly became apparent Until then the Florida Everglades only extended to three miles (5 km) west of Biscayne Bay Beginning in 1906 canals were made to remove some of the water from those lands Miami Beach was developed in 1913 when a two-mile (3 km) wooden bridge built by John Collins was completed During the early 1920s the authorities of Miami allowed gambling and were very lax in regulating prohibition so thousands of people migrated from the northern United States to the Miami region This caused the Florida land boom of the 1920s when many high-rise buildings were built Some early developments were razed after their initial construction to make way for larger buildings the population of Miami doubled from 1920 to 1923 the nearby areas of Lemon City Coconut Grove and Allapattah were annexed in the fall of 1925 creating the Greater Miami area.
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