Plantation Highways Main article: List of invasive species in the Everglades. Grade 8: 26,654, 6.3 South Atlantic (181) 7.42 Temple Israel of Greater Miami (1926), 4.6 Traditions Florida has many seaports that serve container ships tank ships and cruise lines Major ports in Florida include Port Tampa Bay in Tampa Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Port of Jacksonville in Jacksonville PortMiami in Miami Port Canaveral in Brevard County Port Manatee in Manatee County and Port of Palm Beach in Riviera Beach the world's top three busiest cruise ports are found in Florida with PortMiami as the busiest and Port Canaveral and Port Everglades as the second and third busiest Port Tampa Bay meanwhile is the largest in the state having the most tonnage as of 2013 Port Tampa Bay ranks 16th in the United States by tonnage in domestic trade 32nd in foreign trade and 22nd in total trade It is the largest most diversified port in Florida has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion and supports over 80,000 jobs. ; ! Northern Atlantic Civil Rights Movement 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.
. . Historical population Florida's Turnpike 3 School board members Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007). FIU is the largest university in South Florida the second-largest in Florida and the fourth-largest in the United States by enrollment Total enrollment in Fall 2016 was 55,112 students including 8,770 graduate students According to U.S News college rankings and reviews 92% of FIU students live off-campus while only 8% of students live in "college-owned college-operated or college-affiliated" housing. 7 Broadcasting Orlando 22/9 23/11 26/13 28/16 31/19 33/22 33/23 33/23 32/23 29/19 26/15 23/11 World War II brought another population boom for Miami Between 1945 and 1975 16 high schools 30 middle schools and 45 grade schools were opened Miami Edison Senior High School the district's second all-black secondary school was expanded, Tamarac The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.". . . 2000s to 2010s Florida is mostly Christian although there is a large irreligious and relatively significant Jewish community Protestants account for almost half of the population but the Catholic Church is the largest single denomination in the state mainly due to its large Hispanic population and other groups like Haitians Protestants are very diverse although Baptists Methodists Pentecostals and nondenominational Protestants are the largest groups There is also a sizable Jewish community in South Florida This is the largest Jewish population in the southern U.S and the third-largest in the U.S behind those of New York and California.
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