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5.4 Cypress North Palm Beach Bayside Marketplace, Gesu Church built in 1896 is the oldest Catholic church in Miami and one of many central churches and synagogues in Downtown. ! Florida is mostly Christian although there is a large irreligious and relatively significant Jewish community Protestants account for almost half of the population but the Catholic Church is the largest single denomination in the state mainly due to its large Hispanic population and other groups like Haitians Protestants are very diverse although Baptists Methodists Pentecostals and nondenominational Protestants are the largest groups There is also a sizable Jewish community in South Florida This is the largest Jewish population in the southern U.S and the third-largest in the U.S behind those of New York and California, A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Miami the eighth-most walkable of the fifty largest cities in the United States but a 2013 survey by Travel + Leisure ranked Miami 34th for "public transportation and pedestrian friendliness". ; Miami River, Non-Hispanic White 11% 57% 63% Main article: List of Florida International University people, (188) 7.01 Water quality. . 3 Climate Gregory Baker Wolfe a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became FIU's third president from 1979 to 1986 After stepping down as president Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department the student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor.

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. Palmetto Bay Admissions Miami Northwestern opened in 1951 to replace D.A Dorsey which was converted into a junior high until schools were desegregated Dade County Public Schools found that it was not operable anymore as a secondary school so it was turned into an adult educational center, See also: List of Governors of Florida United States congressional delegations from Florida List of United States Senators from Florida and Florida Cabinet, Florida attracted numerous Africans and African Americans from adjacent British colonies who sought freedom from slavery in 1738 Governor Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St Augustine a fortified town for escaped slaves to whom Montiano granted citizenship and freedom in return for their service in the Florida militia and which became the first free black settlement legally sanctioned in North America. .