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I-395 Dolphin Expresswa ), The first permanent European settlers in the Miami area arrived around 1800 Pedro Fornells a Menorcan survivor of the New Smyrna colony moved to Key Biscayne to meet the terms of his Royal Grant for the island Although he returned with his family to St Augustine after six months he left a caretaker behind on the island On a trip to the island in 1803 Fornells had noted the presence of squatters on the mainland across Biscayne Bay from the island in 1825 U.S Marshal Waters Smith visited the Cape Florida Settlement (which was on the mainland) and conferred with squatters who wanted to obtain title to the land they were occupying on the mainland the Bahamian "squatters" had settled along the coast beginning in the 1790s John Egan had also received a grant from Spain during the Second Spanish Period John's son James Egan his wife Rebecca Egan his widow Mary "Polly" Lewis and Mary's brother-in-law Jonathan Lewis all received 640-acre land grants from the U.S. in present-day Miami Temple Pent and his family did not receive a land grant but nevertheless stayed in the area, About half of all Major League Baseball teams conduct spring training in the state with teams informally organized into the "Grapefruit League" Throughout MLB history other teams have held spring training in Florida. Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007), IFL Group With the rise of sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene approximately 17,000 years ago the runoff of water from Lake Okeechobee slowed and created the vast marshland that is now known as the Everglades Slower runoff also created an accumulation of almost 18 feet (5.5 m) of peat in the area the presence of such peat deposits dated to about 5,000 years ago is evidence that widespread flooding had occurred by then. TopCounselingSchools.org 2016: ranked among the top value master's degrees in counseling in Florida (Adrian Dominican School of Education), CR 973 Galloway Road extension of SR 973, As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 19.2% of Miami's population Of the city's total population 5.6% were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American origin (4.4% Haitian 0.4% Jamaican 0.4% Bahamian 0.1% British West Indian and 0.1% Trinidadian and Tobagonian 0.1% Other or Unspecified West Indian) 3.0% were Black Hispanics and 0.4% were Subsaharan African origin; . 2.3.2 Civil Rights Movement On April 22 1895 Flagler wrote Tuttle a long letter recapping her offer of land to him in exchange for extending his railroad to Miami laying out a city and building a hotel the terms provided that Tuttle would award Flagler a 100-acre (0.4 km2) tract of land for the city to grow Around the same time Flagler wrote a similar letter to William and Mary Brickell who had also verbally agreed to give land during his visit. .