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. Treasure hunters from the Bahamas and the Keys came to South Florida to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida reef some of whom accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves in 1825 the Cape Florida Lighthouse was built on nearby Key Biscayne to warn passing ships of the dangerous reefs. 2 Geography FDOT Map of Miami-Dade County Florida Concourse H historically served as the base of operations for Piedmont's Miami focus city and US Airways Express's commuter operations Concourse H continues to serve original tenant Delta Air Lines which uses all of the gates on the west side of the pier and 1 gate on the east side to accommodate international arrivals from Havana. The Board of County Commissioners is the legislative body consisting of 13 members elected from single-member districts Members are elected to serve four-year terms and elections of members are staggered the Board chooses a Chairperson who presides over the Commission as well as appoints the members of its legislative committees the Board has a wide array of powers to enact legislation create departments and regulate businesses operating within the County it also has the power to override the Mayor's veto with a two-thirds vote, North Palm Beach The poverty rate in Florida is 14% in 2018 This is down from a peak of 17.1% in 2012! Law School (night) Restoration Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II.

. 8 See also During the mid-1930s the Art Deco district of Miami Beach was developed Also during this time on February 15 1933 an assassination attempt was made on President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt While Roosevelt was giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park Giuseppe Zangara an Italian anarchist opened fire Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago who was shaking hands with Roosevelt was shot and died two weeks later Four other people were wounded but President-elect Roosevelt was not harmed Zangara was quickly tried for Cermak's murder and was executed by the electric chair on March 20 1933 in Raiford Florida. 8 Architecture 2.4 1980s and 1990s Colleges and universities in and around Miami: North Perry Airport HWO KHWO Broward, The Miami rock scene had a particularly successful period in the late 1980s to mid-1990s sparked by the many rock and acoustic venues within South Beach and Fort Lauderdale including Washington Square Roses the Stephen Talkhouse Cactus Cantina South Beach Pub Blue Steel the Chili Pepper (Revolution) the Culture Room Squeeze Edge Reunion Room Nocturnal Cafe Button South Plus Five McFly's and Tavern 213 Popular local artists included the Mavericks Nuclear Valdez I Don't Know Marilyn Manson the Goods Collapsing Lungs Nonpoint Saigon Kick Tuff Luck Vandal Sin City Charlie Pickett the Holy Terrors Forget the Name the Elysian Natural Causes Peter Betan Nil Lara Diane Ward the Broken Toys Ed Hale Matthew Sabatella Zac Paul Roub Dennis Britt Harry Pussy Magda Hiller Quit Load Dore Soul Eyes of Pandora Sixo Brian Franklin Itanna Curious Hair Robbie Gennett Rudy Restless Spirits the Baboons Purple Mustard Brian Scheinhoft aka BeShine and "The Ekeouts," the Weeds Tommy Anthony & Goza Four O'Clock Balloon Machete and Amanda Green. Miami Shores, Tuition Bayside Marketplace Downtown Miami, BSicon STRq.svg Amtrak (Silver Service) Virgin Trains USA (Virgin Trains USA) and Tri-Rail (Tri-Rail).