. 4.3 Arts and culture Fort Dallas Park CBD. After the Second Seminole War ended in 1842 William English re-established a plantation started by his uncle on the Miami River He charted the "Village of Miami" on the south bank of the Miami River and sold several plots of land in 1844 Miami became the county seat and six years later a census reported there were ninety-six residents in the area the Third Seminole War was not as destructive as the second but it slowed the settlement of southeast Florida At the end of the war a few of the soldiers stayed, 11.3 Intercity rail The first permanent European settlers arrived in the early 19th century People came from the Bahamas to South Florida and the Keys to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida Reef Some accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves the area was affected by the Second Seminole War during which Major William S Harney led several raids against the Indians Most non-Indian residents were soldiers stationed at Fort Dallas it was the most devastating Indian war in American history causing almost a total loss of population in Miami, The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project's final construction project was straightening the Kissimmee River a meandering 90-mile (140 km)-long river that was drained to make way for grazing land and agriculture the C&SF started building the C-38 canal in 1962 and the effects were seen almost immediately Waterfowl wading birds and fish disappeared prompting conservationists and sport fishers to demand the region be restored before the canal was finished in 1971 in general C&SF projects had been criticized for being temporary fixes that ignored future consequences costing billions of dollars with no end in sight After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983 the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986 Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state the Kissimmee River Restoration project was approved by Congress in 1992 It is estimated that it will cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal the entire project was to be complete by 2011 yet as of 2017 the project is "more than halfway complete" and the new completion date is 2020. . Downtown as seen from the Port of Miami, 1.3 Establishment Opa-Locka Executive, In September 2008 the school board bought out Dr Rudy Crew's contract with the district due to mismanaging the budget and his relations with other board members He was replaced by Alberto Carvalho who was previously a science teacher in this school system.[citation needed]; US 441 The Miami metropolitan area also includes several urban clusters (UCs) as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area These are the Belle Glade UC population 24,218 area 20,717,433 square meters and population density of 3027.6 per square mile; Key Biscayne UC population 10,513 area 4,924,214 square meters and population density of 5529.5 per square mile; Redland UC population 3,936 area 10,586,212 square meters and population density of 963.0 per square mile; and West Jupiter UC population 8,998 area 24,737,176 square meters and population density of 942.1 per square mile. Approximately 400 men voted for Miami's incorporation in 1896 in the building to the left Keiser University (private) FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
Cities Contents Dade County Courthouse completed in 1926, University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House the home of FIU's president the Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Frost Art Museum the International Hurricane Research Center and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium FIU Arena and the FIU Baseball Stadium, University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House the home of FIU's president the Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Frost Art Museum the International Hurricane Research Center and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium FIU Arena and the FIU Baseball Stadium. Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA ICAO: KMIA FAA LID: MIA) also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field is the primary airport serving the Miami area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations the airport is in an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Florida 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami in metropolitan Miami adjacent to the cities of Miami and Miami Springs and the village of Virginia Gardens Nearby are the cities of Hialeah and Doral and the Census-designated place of Fontainebleau. Indian Creek Bay Harbor Islands Though spelled the same in English the Florida city's name has nothing to do with the Miami people who lived in a completely different part of North America. Jacksonville 18/6 20/7 23/10 26/13 30/17 32/21 33/23 33/23 31/21 27/16 23/11 19/7 Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools Most schools reopened within two weeks of the storm and students who attended schools that had been completely destroyed were quickly displaced with free and efficient bus transportation the district also used funding from the disaster to redo its entire curriculum adding sex education to elementary schools and foreign language programs to middle schools it opened fully funded magnet schools such as Coral Reef High School and Southwood Middle School which take in students from all over the county based on school performance (some schools are partial magnets which also enroll students from surrounding neighborhoods while some are full magnets that only take students based on merit) the district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish.
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