In 1763 Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Great Britain for control of Havana Cuba which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War it was part of a large expansion of British territory following their victory in the Seven Years' War a large portion of the Floridano population left taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba the British soon constructed the King's Road connecting St Augustine to Georgia the road crossed the St Johns River at a narrow point called Wacca Pilatka or the British name "Cow Ford" ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there. ; . . . . The Miami River in 1935, Everglades restoration received $96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 As a result of the stimulus package a mile-long (1.6 km) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009 the next month work began to reconstruct the C-111 canal east of the park that historically diverted water into Florida Bay Governor Charlie Crist announced the same month that $50 million of state funds would be earmarked for Everglades restoration in May 2010 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of bridges were proposed to be added to the Tamiami Trail.
In May 2011 the paper announced it had sold 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Biscayne Bayfront land surrounding its headquarters in the Arts & Entertainment District of Downtown Miami for $236 million to a Malaysian resort developer Genting Malaysia Berhad McClatchy announced that the Herald and El Nuevo Herald would be moving to another location by 2013 in May 2013 the paper moved to a new building in suburban Doral the old building was demolished in 2014, See also: Transportation in Miami 2.3 1950s to 1970s! Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach Mining Bal Harbour The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble which burst in 1925 the land boom left behind entire new cities such as Coral Gables Hialeah Miami Springs Opa-locka Miami Shores and Hollywood it also left behind the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County Fulford-by-the-Sea in what is now North Miami Beach Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay Boca Raton as it had originally been planned and Palm Beach Ocean just north of Palm Beach the land boom shaped Florida's future for decades and created entire new cities out of the Everglades land that remain today the story includes many parallels to the real estate boom of the 2000s including the forces of outside speculators easy credit access for buyers and rapidly appreciating property values. .
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