After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly. Population 2010 Highways The Barnacle Historic State Park or the Barnacle built in 1891 is the oldest house in its original location in Miami Wellington 56,508 38,216 Palm Beach. Downtown is also home to many international chambers of commerce these include: Before the construction of routes under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 Florida began construction of a long cross-state toll road Florida's Turnpike the first section from Fort Pierce south to the Golden Glades Interchange was completed in 1957 After a second section north through Orlando to Wildwood (near present-day the Villages) and a southward extension around Miami to Homestead it was finished in 1974. 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. The Miami area is a diverse community with a large proportion of foreign-born residents in large part due to its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean!
. The "Tropic" section and its columnist Dave Barry run the Herald Hunt a unique annual puzzlehunt in the Miami area.[citation needed], 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; In 2010 58.1% of the county's population was foreign born with 41.1% being naturalized American citizens Of foreign-born residents 95.4% were born in Latin America 2.4% were born in Europe 1.4% born in Asia 0.5% born in Africa 0.2% in North America and 0.1% were born in Oceania! Miami Florida Business directory Albizu University's branch campus in Miami Florida! Central West Florida, J 5 References In 1936 Mr Hopkins (Lindsey Hopkins Jr.) and his father (Lindsey Hopkins Sr.) acquired the skeleton of the bankrupt unfinished Roosevelt Hotel at 1410 NE Second Ave at public auction for $38,000 They spent a million dollars fixing it up in 1941 four years after the elder Lindsey Hopkins' death Mr Hopkins sold the building to the School Board for $225,000 as a memorial to his father, 7.3 Invasive species Photograph of large group of people on the Virginia Key Beach 1945. .
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