. . 8 Economy 1900 4,955 475.5% In 1891 a Cleveland woman named Julia Tuttle decided to move to South Florida to make a new start in her life after the death of her husband Frederick Tuttle She purchased 640 acres on the north bank of the Miami River in present-day downtown Miami, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, In the 1980s Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations such as Haiti As the Haitian population grew in Miami the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street in 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city in the 1990s the presence of Haitians was acknowledged with Haitian Creole language signs in public places and ballots during voting. This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (April 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). PortMiami is one of the busiest container ports in the US, The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for its reporting on Miami's organized crime Its circulation was 176,000 daily and 204,000 on Sundays. 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522 Country Club Riverside Elementary School for CBD children Beginnings The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library contains more than 710,000 items including 2,600 periodical titles 5,000 audiovisual items 150 electronic databases and an "excellent Catholic American collection." the library also contains a collection of documents pertaining to Operation Pedro Pan. To maintain and achieve successful business operations in foreign nations persons must understand how variations in culture and traditions across nations affect business practices This idea is known as cultural literacy Without knowledge of a host country's culture corporate strategizing is more difficult and error-prone when entering foreign markets compared with the home country's market and culture This can create a "blind spot" during the decision making process and result in ethnocentrism Education about international business introduces the student to new concepts that can be applicable in international strategy in topics such as marketing and operations, Income: the median income of households in the Miami area was $43,091 78% of the households received earnings and 13% received retirement income other than Social Security 30% of the households received Social Security the average income from Social Security was $13 These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is some households received income from more than one source, Until the mid-20th century Florida was the least populous state in the southern United States in 1900 its population was only 528,542 of whom nearly 44% were African American the same proportion as before the Civil War the boll weevil devastated cotton crops. Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is one of the last remaining theaters from the many that once existed on Flagler Street in the 1920s.

. See also: Category:Florida media, At least three airplanes have crashed in the Everglades including: Northwest Airlines Flight 705 (in 1963) Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (1972) and ValuJet Flight 592 (1996), See also: List of colleges and universities in Florida List of high schools in Florida and List of school districts in Florida; Cypress Treasure hunters from the Bahamas and the Keys came to South Florida to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida reef some of whom accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves in 1825 the Cape Florida Lighthouse was built on nearby Key Biscayne to warn passing ships of the dangerous reefs, Adjacent counties (32.7) 91.9 The Everglades Forever Act introduced by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1994 was an attempt to legislate the lowering of phosphorus in Everglades waterways the act put the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in charge of testing and enforcing low phosphorus levels: 10 parts per billion (ppb) (down from 500 ppb in the 1980s) the SFWMD built Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) near sugarcane fields where water leaving the EAA flows into ponds lined with lime rock and layers of peat and calcareous periphyton Testing has shown this method to be more effective than previously anticipated bringing levels from 80 ppb to 10 ppb.