4 Defunct and relocated teams 2.1 Early history The Freedom Tower built in 1925 is a local historic landmark and a symbol of the city, Miami Shores (of any race) 63.1% 23.2% 16.9%. . . . 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. .
Contents Miami is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States Television stations serving the Miami area include WAMI (UniMas) WBFS (My Network TV) WSFL (The CW) WFOR (CBS) WHFT (TBN) WLTV (Univision) WPLG (ABC) WPXM (Ion) WSCV (Telemundo) WSVN (Fox) WTVJ (NBC) WPBT (PBS) and WLRN (also PBS), The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. Class of 1991 Lakeview Hall North and South residence halls 6% of FIU students live on-campus After the Second Seminole War ended in 1842 Fitzpatrick's nephew William English re-established the plantation in Miami He charted the "Village of Miami" on the south bank of the Miami River and sold several plots of land When English died in California in 1852 his plantation died with him. Statutes Toll Florida 869.svg State Road 869 (Sawgrass Expressway), 4 Student life Flood control Miami Florida Business directory Downtown Miami Charter School; 6.1.2 Seminole Ian Richards Florida's many state parks and protected areas receive a lot of visitors as well with 25.2 million visitors visiting Florida State Parks in 2013.
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