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Miami Children's Museum School, Air crashes 2008 51.0% 4,282,367 48.2% 4,046,219, See also: List of notable crossings of the Atlantic Ocean! CR 854 Ives Dairy Road SR 817 US 1 former SR 854 (east of US 441), (2010 to 2018) Enterprise Florida the state's economic development agency identifies "Southeast Florida" as one of eight economic regions used by the agency and other state and outside entities including the Florida Department of Transportation Some entities alternately designate this region "South Florida" Its definition includes much of the same territory as Lamme and Oldakowski's report (except the Gulf Coast and much of the interior Glades region) as well as additional area it includes Monroe County (the Keys) and the three metropolitan counties of Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach. A sign advertising the completion of the Herbert Hoover Dike, 17 External links 2 Geography, In 1936 Mr Hopkins (Lindsey Hopkins Jr.) and his father (Lindsey Hopkins Sr.) acquired the skeleton of the bankrupt unfinished Roosevelt Hotel at 1410 NE Second Ave at public auction for $38,000 They spent a million dollars fixing it up in 1941 four years after the elder Lindsey Hopkins' death Mr Hopkins sold the building to the School Board for $225,000 as a memorial to his father!

. The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:, Franklin Park Everglades Initial attempts at developing agriculture near Lake Okeechobee were successful but the nutrients in the peat were rapidly removed In a process called soil subsidence oxidation of peat causes loss of volume Bacteria decompose dead sawgrass slowly underwater without oxygen When the water was drained in the 1920s and bacteria interacted with oxygen an aerobic reaction occurred Microorganisms degraded the peat into carbon dioxide and water Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land Some homes built in the areas of early farms had to have their foundations moved to stilts as the peat deteriorated; other areas lost approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) of soil depth. 3.7.6 Wolfsonian Library Rock Indie/folk acts Cat Power and Iron & Wine are based in the city while alternative hip hop artist Sage Francis electro artist Uffie and the electroclash duo Avenue D were born in Miami but musically based elsewhere! A national push for expansion and progress in the United States occurred in the later part of the 19th century which stimulated interest in draining the Everglades for agricultural use According to historians "From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century the United States went through a period in which wetland removal was not questioned Indeed it was considered the proper thing to do." Draining the Everglades was suggested as early as 1837 and a resolution in Congress was passed in 1842 that prompted Secretary of Treasury Robert J Walker to request those with experience in the Everglades to give their opinion on the possibility of drainage Many officers who had served in the Seminole Wars favored the idea in 1850 Congress passed a law that gave several states wetlands within their state boundaries the Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act ensured that the state would be responsible for funding the attempts at developing wetlands into farmlands Florida quickly formed a committee to consolidate grants to pay for any attempts though the Civil War and Reconstruction halted progress until after 1877. . When Crandon Park got a zoo Virginia Key Beach got a pond with ornamental plants and so things began to change When wealthy residents of Key Biscayne and nearby Fisher Island needed a place to dump their garbage and pump their sewage the breezes on Virginia Key Beach turned sour the water clouded with effluents the long-term environmental impact has yet to be fully determined Still Virginia Key Beach remained a popular even sacred place within Miami's Black community. 7 Climate Sunrise Colleges and universities in and around Miami:, Hispanic and Latinos of any race made up 22.5% of the population in 2010 as of 2011 57% of Florida's population younger than age 1 were minorities (meaning that they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white).