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3.2.1 Concourse E 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:. Source Culture and wildlife Dade County was created on January 18 1836 under the Territorial Act of the United States the county was named after Major Francis L Dade a soldier killed in 1835 in the Second Seminole War at what has since been named the Dade Battlefield At the time of its creation Dade County included the land that now contains Palm Beach and Broward counties together with the Florida Keys from Bahia Honda Key north and the land of present-day Miami-Dade County the county seat was originally at Indian Key in the Florida Keys; then in 1844 the County seat was moved to Miami the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Bahia Honda were returned to Monroe County in 1866 in 1888 the county seat was moved to Juno near present-day Juno Beach Florida returning to Miami in 1899 in 1909 Palm Beach County was formed from the northern portion of what was Dade County and then in 1915 Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create what is now Broward County There have been no significant boundary changes to the county since 1915, Main article: Geography and ecology of the Everglades Oakland Park 4 Law government and politics. .

White: 70.3% [4,263,038], In 2011 PortMiami was awarded a federal grant as part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program to restore a connection between the Florida East Coast Railway's yard in Hialeah and the PortMiami directly connecting the port to rail networks across the United States as well as re-establishing the port's on-dock rail capability (loading and unloading directly between ships and trains) the railroad bridge connecting the PortMiami to the mainland was damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 at which time service was suspended the project was scheduled to be finished in time for the completion of the other projects in 2014 the rail project is related to another scheme to increase PortMiami's capacity; an inland intermodal center known as Flagler Logistics Hub to be built to be built near the airport on 300 acres of land in Hialeah. . As part of the massive PortMiami redevelopment program new ultramodern cruise terminals roadways and parking garages have been constructed Additionally a new gantry crane dock and container storage yards have been constructed along with the electrification of the gantry crane docks to include the conversion of several cranes has been completed in addition the Port acquired two state-of-the-art super post-panamax gantry cranes which are amongst the largest in the world; able to load and unload 22 container (8 foot wide each) or nearly 200 foot wide mega container ships This along with the planned Deep Dredge Project would make it possible for PortMiami to facilitate even the future largest containerships in the world the Maersk Triple E Class the new and restructured roadway system with new lighting landscaping and signage greets visitors to the 'Cruise Capital of the World and Cargo Gateway of the Americas' the roadways will change again with the completion of the PortMiami Tunnel And to enhance cargo port accessibility the newly constructed Security Gates opened at the end of 2006 to increase the processing rate for container trucks and help eliminate the daily traffic backups.