10 Communities Two or more races (Multiracial) 2.7% 2.4% 2.5% It is South Florida's main airport for long-haul international flights and a hub for the Southeastern United States with passenger and cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas Europe Africa and Western Asia as well as cargo flights to East Asia It is the largest gateway between the United States and south to Latin America and is one of the largest airline hubs in the United States owing to its proximity to tourist attractions local economic growth large local Latin American and European populations and strategic location to handle connecting traffic between North America Latin America and Europe. Electronic dance music No country that I have ever heard of bears any resemblance to it; it seems like a vast sea filled with grass and green trees and expressly intended as a retreat for the rascally Indian from which the white man would never seek to drive them. ! . Environmental risk 1.3 1890s: Fast growth and formation, Map of Miami in 1955 Main article: Restoration of the Everglades Florida Panthers Hockey 1993 National Hockey League BB&T Center None. . BSicon STRq.svg Amtrak (Silver Service) Virgin Trains USA (Virgin Trains USA) and Tri-Rail (Tri-Rail), In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it, With the railroad under construction activity in Miami began to pick up Men from throughout Florida flocked to Miami to await Flagler's call for workers of all qualifications to begin work on the promised hotel and city by late December 1895 seventy-five of them already were at work clearing the site for the hotel They lived mostly in tents and huts in the wilderness which had no streets and few cleared paths Many of these men were victims of the freeze which had left both money and work scarce. .
Source: As of 2010 the population of Downtown Miami was 65,696 people with a population density of 27,487 per square mile in the 2010 US Census the racial makeup of Downtown was 57.6% Hispanic of any race 30.8% White (non-Hispanic) 7.2% Black and 2.9% Asian the zip codes for Brickell include 33129 33130 and 33131 the area covers 1.084 square miles (2.81 km2)! The First Coconut Grove School built in 1887 served as both the religious and educational center of the pioneer community in 1889 the building was rented to the School Board for the purpose of servicing children in District #3 the first teachers at the First Coconut Grove Schoolhouse included C.L Trapp and Flora McFarlane the first students in attendance included Annie and Harry Peacock; John James Trinni and Mary Pent; and Lillian Grace Charlie and Joseph Frow, Mangrove and Coastal prairie Panther Hall 1996 Other causeways are the John F Kennedy (79th Street) and Broad causeways (connecting the Miami mainland) and the Rickenbacker Causeway (connecting Miami to Key Biscayne) the Card Sound Bridge connects the mainland in the Homestead Florida area to the northern part of Key Largo. Grade 5: 27,110 1972 27.8% 718,117 71.9% 1,857,759 1970 1,267,792 35.6% However this boom began to falter due to building construction delays and overload on the transport system caused by an excess of bulky building materials on January 10 1926 the Prinz Valdemar an old Danish warship on its way to becoming a floating hotel ran aground and blocked Miami Harbor for nearly a month Already overloaded the three major railway companies soon declared an embargo on all incoming goods except food the cost of living had skyrocketed and finding an affordable place to live was nearly impossible This economic bubble was already collapsing when the catastrophic Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 swept through ending whatever was left of the boom the Category 4 storm was the 12th most costly and 12th most deadly to strike the United States during the 20th century According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities but other estimates vary due to the large number of people listed as "missing" Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless in the Miami area the Great Depression followed causing more than sixteen thousand people in Miami to become unemployed As a result a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was opened in the area.
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