Amtrak maintenance facility The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300. In 1992 Florida was the site of what was then the costliest weather disaster in U.S history Hurricane Andrew which caused more than $25 billion in damages when it struck during August; it held that distinction until 2005 when Hurricane Katrina surpassed it and it has since been surpassed by six other hurricanes Andrew is currently the second costliest hurricane in Florida's history, 2.1 Operations (19.8) 73.1 German American Business Chamber 2.1 San Juan Campus; . Maidique was the second longest-serving research university president in the nation Now President Emeritus he currently serves as the Alvah H Chapman Jr Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor of Management at FIU. Average maximum and minimum levels of rainfall for the lower east coast of Florida from 1918 to 1985, Dolphin Mall 6.2.2 Newsweek Fire. . The Miami Dolphins play at Hard Rock Stadium in suburban Miami Gardens while the Florida Panthers play in nearby Sunrise at the BB&T Center, Soccer: Miami Gatos (NASL) Miami Toros (NASL). The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:.
. Park West is the neighborhood just west of Museum Park east of NW 1st Ave south of I-195 and north of NE 6th St Park West was primarily known for its nightclubs and in recent years has been the talk of much revitalization and project proposals for the revitalization of the area By the end of 2015 most of the nightclubs along the former club row west of the MetroMover from the Freedom Tower station to the Eleventh Street Station have been demolished to make way for planned construction of Miami World Center Park West is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at: Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Station and by three Metromover stations on the Omni Loop, The Miami area is home to four major league sports teams Currently the Miami Heat and the Miami Marlins play their games within Miami's city limits the Heat play their home games at the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami the Miami Marlins home ballpark is Marlins Park located in the Little Havana section of the city on the site of the old Orange Bowl stadium.
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