. Plantation Ryder Business Building 1992 The underlying bedrock or limestone of the Everglades basin affects the hydroperiod or how long an area within the region stays flooded throughout the year Longer hydroperiods are possible in areas that were submerged beneath seawater for longer periods of time while the geology of Florida was forming More water is held within the porous ooids and limestone than older types of rock that spent more time above sea level a hydroperiod of ten months or more fosters growth of sawgrass whereas a shorter hydroperiod of six months or less promotes beds of periphyton a growth of algae and other microscopic organisms There are only two types of soil in the Everglades peat and marl Where there are longer hydroperiods peat builds up over hundreds or thousands of years due to many generations of decaying plant matter Where periphyton grows the soil develops into marl which is more calcitic in composition.
Restoration Culture and contemporary life Bayfront Park 9.2 Public transit ZBT In 2017 breakout artist XXXTentacion brought the "soundcloud rap" movement towards the mainstream the movement predominately based in South Florida takes its name from the audio distribution platform Soundcloud where the artists generally post their music the style of music brought forward by SoundCloud rap is heavily distorted bass intentionally bad mixing and fast tempos the main artists in this movement are XXXTentacion Lil Pump Wifisfuneral Ski Mask the Slump God and Smokepurpp XXXTentacion was featured on the XXL 2017 Freshman cover Lil Pump Ski Mask the Slump God Smokepurrp and Wifisfuneral were all featured on the XXL 2018 Freshman cover. With the rise of sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene approximately 17,000 years ago the runoff of water from Lake Okeechobee slowed and created the vast marshland that is now known as the Everglades Slower runoff also created an accumulation of almost 18 feet (5.5 m) of peat in the area the presence of such peat deposits dated to about 5,000 years ago is evidence that widespread flooding had occurred by then, Ten Thousand Islands Miami-Dade County includes 34 incorporated areas 38 census-designated places and 16 unincorporated regions; With the construction of canals newly reclaimed Everglades land was promoted throughout the United States Land developers sold 20,000 lots in a few months in 1912 Advertisements promised within eight weeks of arrival a farmer could be making a living although for many it took at least two months to clear the land Some tried burning off the sawgrass or other vegetation only to learn that the peat continued to burn Animals and tractors used for plowing got mired in the muck and were useless When the muck dried it turned to a fine black powder and created dust storms Although initially crops sprouted quickly and lushly they just as quickly wilted and died seemingly without reason. Since the development of the federal NASA Merritt Island launch sites on Cape Canaveral (most notably Kennedy Space Center) in 1962 Florida has developed a sizable aerospace industry, Technology is expanding especially in transportation and communications, Miami-Dade County holds the majority of sports arenas stadiums and complexes in South Florida Some of these sports facilities are:. From 1858 to 1896 only a handful of families made their homes in the Miami area Those that did lived in small settlements along Biscayne Bay the first of these settlements formed at the mouth of the Miami River and was variously called Miami Miamuh and Fort Dallas Foremost among the Miami River settlers were the Brickells William Brickell had previously lived in Cleveland Ohio California and Australia where he met his wife Mary in 1870 Brickell bought land on the south bank of the river the Brickells and their children operated a trading post and post office on their property for the rest of the 19th century. Amtrak Silver Service to New York City Pan Am's terminal at Dinner Key in 1944 during World War II Contents. Historical population 4 Railroad access, She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel, (33.3) 90.4 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.
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