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. . During the 1970s Miami was a news leader due to the response to a Dade County ordinance protecting individuals on the basis of sexual orientation.[citation needed] Opposition to this ordinance which was repealed was led by Florida orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant. The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro, See also: Pangaea Ultima, 5.1 Top destinations 1980 1,625,781 28.2% In 1830 Richard Fitzpatrick bought land on the Miami River from Bahamian James Egan He built a plantation with slave labor where he cultivated sugarcane bananas maize and tropical fruit in January 1836 shortly after the beginning of the Second Seminole War Fitzpatrick removed his slaves and closed his plantation. Early history The metropolitan areas of Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are located on a rise in elevation along the eastern coast of Florida called the Eastern Coastal Ridge that was formed as waves compressed ooids into a single formation Along the western border of the Big Cypress Swamp is the Immokolee Ridge (or Immokolee Rise) a slight rise of compressed sand that divides the runoff between the Caloosahatchee River and the Big Cypress This slight rise in elevation on both sides of the Everglades creates a basin and forces water that overflows Lake Okeechobee to creep toward the southwest Under both the Miami Limestone formation and the Fort Thompson limestone lies the Biscayne Aquifer a surface aquifer that serves as the Miami metropolitan area's fresh water source Rainfall and stored water in the Everglades replenish the Biscayne Aquifer directly. Everglades National Park, In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes, Central Korean Presbyterian Church Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001. 10.1 Congressional districts 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.

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. Downtown Miami Center, Economy 2.5 Miami Jewelry District, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (April 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)!