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Geographic mobility: in 2005 83% of the people at least one year old living in the Miami metro area were living in the same residence one year earlier; 12% had moved during the past year from another residence in the same county 2% from another county in the same state 2% from another state and 1% from abroad. 11.2 Private schools In 1830 Richard Fitzpatrick bought land on the Miami River from Bahamian James Egan He built a plantation with slave labor where he cultivated sugarcane bananas maize and tropical fruit in January 1836 shortly after the beginning of the Second Seminole War Fitzpatrick removed his slaves and closed his plantation.

Fort Lauderdale 2 Special features Seaports From 2007 to 2016 FIU ranked 1st in the State University System of Florida in energy conservation and sustainability. . Traveling to Work: 79% of Miami area workers drove to work alone in 2005 10% carpooled 4% took public transportation and 4% used other means the remaining 3% worked at home Among those who commuted to work it took them on average 28.5 minutes to get to work. . 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, Cape Florida Light a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County Florida Constructed in 1825.