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16 Further reading Some of the major Florida State Roads (and their common names) serving Miami are:. . . . Grade 11: 27,341 I-75.svg Interstate 75 (15.3) 66.9 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. The Orange Bowl one of the major bowl games in the College Football Playoff of the NCAA is played at Hard Rock Stadium every winter the stadium has also hosted the Super Bowl; the Miami metro area has hosted the game a total of ten times (five times at the current Hard Rock Stadium and five at the Miami Orange Bowl) tying New Orleans for the most games.

6.5.2 Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project Although the railroads lifted the embargo in May 1926 the boom nevertheless fizzled out Disaster then followed in the shape of the September 1926 Miami Hurricane which drove many developers into bankruptcy the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 continued the catastrophic downward economic trend and the Florida land boom was officially over as the Great Depression began the depression and the devastating arrival of the Mediterranean fruit fly a year later destroyed both the tourist and citrus industries upon which Florida depended In a few years an idyllic tropical paradise had been transformed into a bleak humid remote area with few economic prospects Florida's economy would not recover until World War II Daytona International Speedway is home to various auto racing events. ; Dialect South Florida Punk and Hardcore Big Cypress National Preserve 1.3 Slavery war and disenfranchisement. On November 14 2008 Maidique announced that he would be stepping down and asked FIU's Board of Trustees to begin the search of a new president He said he would remain president until a new one was found on April 25 2009 Mark B Rosenberg was selected to become FIU's fifth president He signed a five-year contract with the Board of Trustees on August 29 2009 Rosenberg became FIU's fifth president.