I-75 which spans 470 miles in Florida enters the state near Lake City (45 miles (72 km) west of Jacksonville) and continues southward through Gainesville Ocala Tampa's eastern suburbs Bradenton Sarasota Fort Myers and Naples where it crosses the "Alligator Alley" as a toll road to Fort Lauderdale before turning southward and terminating in Hialeah/Miami Lakes having interchanges with I-10 in Lake City and I-4 in Tampa It is the second longest north south interstate with a total length of 1786 miles and terminates at the Canadian border at Sault Ste Marie Michigan. . Fire Rescue Biscayne National Park With a population of more than 18 million according to the 2010 census Florida is the most populous state in the southeastern United States and the third-most populous in the United States. Florida has three NFL teams two MLB teams two NBA teams two NHL teams and one MLS team Florida gained its first permanent major-league professional sports team in 1966 when the American Football League added the Miami Dolphins the state of Florida has given professional sports franchises some subsidies in the form of tax breaks since 1991; Greater Miami is split into two separate television/radio markets: the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market serves Miami-Dade Broward and the Florida Keys the West Palm Beach market serves Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast region. While the railroad's extension to Miami remained unannounced in the spring of 1895 rumors of this possibility continued to multiply fueling real estate activity in the Biscayne Bay area the news of the railroad's extension was officially announced on June 21 1895 in late September the work on the railroad began and settlers began pouring into the promised "freeze proof" lands on October 24 1895 the contract agreed upon by Flagler and Tuttle was approved, 3.1 Population As of 2009 there are approximately 71,000 year-round residents in Greater Downtown (including Downtown's Brickell Park West and Arts & Entertainment District neighborhoods) with close to 200,000 populating the Downtown area during the daytime making Downtown Miami one of the most populous downtowns in the U.S after New York City and Chicago With recent mass construction of high-rise residential buildings and office towers Downtown has experienced large growth with new shops bars parks and restaurants opening up attracting many new residents Along with Brickell Downtown has grown from 40,000 residents in 2000 to over 70,000 in 2009 making it one of the fastest-growing areas in Florida it was estimated in February 2010 that about 550 new residents move to the Downtown area every month as of 2009 over 190,000 office employees work in Downtown and Brickell.
Online availability no Limited Value Colleges 2016: ranked Barry University's online Master of Public Administration program among the Top 50 Best Value Online the program which is offered through the School of Professional and Career Education is ranked No 44 When compared to other private and nonprofit schools Barry ranks No 14, Wellington 56,508 38,216 Palm Beach (27.3) 84.9 The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed. Seasonal: Charleston (SC) Eagle/Vail Indianapolis (begins November 3 2019) Nassau Norfolk 12 Further reading Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development. The Brickell Financial District in Miami contains the largest concentration of international banks in the United States Florida's primary interstate routes include:. Admissions Fluctuating sea levels compressed numerous layers of calcium carbonate sand and shells the resulting permeable limestone formations that developed between 25 million and 70 million years ago created the Floridan Aquifer which serves as the main source of fresh water for the northern portion of Florida However this aquifer lies beneath thousands of feet of impermeable sedimentary rock from Lake Okeechobee to the southern tip of the peninsula. . .
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