4 See also Athletics I-195 On February 1 1896 Tuttle fulfilled the first part of her agreement with Flagler by signing two deeds to transfer land for his hotel and the 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land near the hotel site to him the titles to the Brickell and Tuttle properties were based on early Spanish land grants and had to be determined to be clear of conflict before the marketing of the Miami lots began on March 3 Flagler hired John Sewell from West Palm Beach to begin work on the town as more people came into Miami on April 7 1896 the railroad tracks finally reached Miami and the first train arrived on April 13 it was a special unscheduled train and Flagler was on board the train returned to St Augustine later that night the first regularly scheduled train arrived on the night of April 15 the first week of train service provided only for freight trains; passenger service did not begin until April 22. Further information: History of Miami Airboating has become a popular ecotourism attraction in the Everglades Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport OPF KOPF Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene! Pan American World Airways ("Pan Am") the other longtime key carrier at MIA was acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1991 but filed for bankruptcy shortly thereafter Its remaining international routes from Miami to Europe and Latin America were sold to United Airlines for $135 million as part of Pan Am's emergency liquidation that December United's Latin American hub offered 24 daily departures in the summer of 1992 growing to 36 daily departures to 21 destinations in the summer of 1994 but returned to 24 daily departures in the summer of 1995 and never expanded further United ended flights from Miami to South America and shut down its Miami crew base in May 2004 reallocating most Miami resources to its main hub in O'Hare International Airport in Chicago United ceased all mainline service to Miami in 2005 with the introduction of its low-cost product Ted. Palm Springs North, The median income for a household in the county was $43,605 and the median income for a family was $50,065 Males had a median income of $35,096 versus $29,980 for females the per capita income for the county was $22,957 About 13.8% of families and 17.2% of the population were below the poverty line including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 22.1% of those aged 65 or over, 3 Climate Consulates First United Methodist Church (1966).
As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area. .
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