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Demographics American football: Miami Seahawks (AAFC) Miami Tropics (SFL) Miami Hooters (Arena Football League) Bal Harbour Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA ICAO: KMIA FAA LID: MIA) also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field is the primary airport serving the Miami area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations the airport is in an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Florida 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami in metropolitan Miami adjacent to the cities of Miami and Miami Springs and the village of Virginia Gardens Nearby are the cities of Hialeah and Doral and the Census-designated place of Fontainebleau. 6.2.1 U.S News and World Report, Beginning in 1962 Dade County schools began to receive their first influx of Hispanic students mainly from Cuba This was significant in shaping the school system into what it is today, Elsa Murano 3 Demographics 15 Notable people The third-costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States was Hurricane Andrew which hit Miami in the early morning of Monday August 24 1992 it struck the southern part of the county from due east south of Miami and very near Homestead Kendall and Cutler Ridge (now the Town of Cutler Bay) Damages numbered over US$25 billion in the county alone and recovery has taken years in these areas where the destruction was greatest This was the costliest natural disaster in US history until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf region in 2005. A Metrorail train approaching Government Center Public transportation is a vital part of Downtown life, Jupiter 55,156 39,328 Palm Beach M, From the Glades peoples two major nations emerged in the area: the Calusa and the Tequesta the Calusa was the largest and most powerful nation in South Florida it controlled fifty villages located on Florida's west coast around Lake Okeechobee and on the Florida Keys Most Calusa villages were located at the mouths of rivers or on key islands the Calusa were hunter-gatherers who lived on small game fish turtles alligators shellfish and various plants Most of their tools were made of bone or teeth although sharpened reeds were also effective for hunting or war Calusa weapons consisted of bows and arrows atlatls and spears Canoes were used for transportation and South Florida tribes often canoed through the Everglades but rarely lived in them Canoe trips to Cuba were also common! . Popular music Dennis Lehane 1.3 1890s: Fast growth and formation.

! 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement, (of any race) 63.1% 23.2% 16.9% Young Women's Preparatory School all-girls, - University business professors ($75,000)*. . . A 2013 Gallup poll indicated that 47% of the residents agreed that Florida was the best state to live in Results in other states ranged from a low of 18% to a high of 77%. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections Barack Obama carried the state as a northern Democrat attracting high voter turnout especially among the young Independents and minority voters of whom Hispanics comprise an increasingly large proportion 2008 marked the first time since 1944 when Franklin D Roosevelt carried the state for the fourth time that Florida was carried by a Northern Democrat for president. Ranking Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (private), Grade 5: 27,110 The first airport on the site of MIA opened in the 1920s and was known as Miami City Airport Pan American World Airways opened an expanded facility adjacent to City Airport Pan American Field in 1928 Pan American Field was built on 116 acres of land on 36th Street and was the only mainland airport in the eastern United States that had port of entry facilities Its runways were located around the threshold of today's Runway 26R Eastern Airlines began to serve Pan American Field in 1931 followed by National Airlines in 1936 National used a terminal on the opposite side of LeJeune Road from the airport and would stop traffic on the road in order to taxi aircraft to and from its terminal Miami Army Airfield opened in 1943 during the Second World War to the south of Pan American Field: the runways of the two were originally separated by railroad tracks but the two airfields were listed in some directories as a single facility Following World War II in 1945 the City of Miami established a Port Authority and raised bond revenue to purchase Pan American Field which had been since renamed 36th Street Airport from Pan Am it merged with the former Miami Army Airfield which was purchased from the United States Army Air Force south of the railroad in 1949 and expanded further in 1951 when the railroad line itself was moved south to make more room the old terminal on 36th Street was closed in 1959 when the center modern passenger terminal (since greatly expanded) opened United States Air Force Reserve troop carrier and rescue squadrons also operated from the airport from 1949 through 1959 when the last unit relocated to nearby Homestead Air Force Base (now Homestead Air Reserve Base), Other faith Miami Florida Business directory!