Everglades University

Villa Vizcaya a popular tourist attraction Natural hazards Historically Florida's economy has been based primarily upon agricultural products such as cattle sugar cane citrus fruits tomatoes and strawberries. The British divided and consolidated the Florida provinces (Las Floridas) into East Florida and West Florida a division the Spanish government kept after the brief British period the British government gave land grants to officers and soldiers who had fought in the French and Indian War in order to encourage settlement in order to induce settlers to move to Florida reports of its natural wealth were published in England a large number of British settlers who were described as being "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida mostly coming from South Carolina Georgia and England There was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of Bermuda This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now Duval County Baker County St Johns County and Nassau County the British built good public roads and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane indigo and fruits as well as the export of lumber. However this boom began to falter due to building construction delays and overload on the transport system caused by an excess of bulky building materials on January 10 1926 the Prinz Valdemar an old Danish warship on its way to becoming a floating hotel ran aground and blocked Miami Harbor for nearly a month Already overloaded the three major railway companies soon declared an embargo on all incoming goods except food the cost of living had skyrocketed and finding an affordable place to live was nearly impossible This economic bubble was already collapsing when the catastrophic Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 swept through ending whatever was left of the boom the Category 4 storm was the 12th most costly and 12th most deadly to strike the United States during the 20th century According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities but other estimates vary due to the large number of people listed as "missing" Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless in the Miami area the Great Depression followed causing more than sixteen thousand people in Miami to become unemployed As a result a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was opened in the area. .

Understanding the manner of speaking within business in the local area to improve overall productivity. Period Mean Maximum Minimum The underlying bedrock or limestone of the Everglades basin affects the hydroperiod or how long an area within the region stays flooded throughout the year Longer hydroperiods are possible in areas that were submerged beneath seawater for longer periods of time while the geology of Florida was forming More water is held within the porous ooids and limestone than older types of rock that spent more time above sea level a hydroperiod of ten months or more fosters growth of sawgrass whereas a shorter hydroperiod of six months or less promotes beds of periphyton a growth of algae and other microscopic organisms There are only two types of soil in the Everglades peat and marl Where there are longer hydroperiods peat builds up over hundreds or thousands of years due to many generations of decaying plant matter Where periphyton grows the soil develops into marl which is more calcitic in composition. The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral Florida a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area several miles west of downtown Miami Founded in 1903 it is the second largest newspaper[citation needed] in South Florida serving Miami-Dade Broward and Monroe Counties it also circulates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Miami Florida Business directory 8.4 Parks Paul S Walker Park CBD. The City of Miami Fire and Rescue Department operates 4 of its 14 fire stations within the Downtown area Each are listed below. Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Miami Modern Architecture or MiMo a style that originated in Miami in the 1950s as seen in the Bacardi Building in Midtown built in 1963 and dedicated as a historic site in 2009, Labor Center 1994 The Mayaimi (also Maymi Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century in the languages of the Mayaimi Calusa and Tequesta tribes Mayaimi meant "big water." the origin of the language has not been determined as the meanings of only ten words were recorded before extinction the linguist Julian Granberry states that the language of the Calusa Mayaimi (which he calls Guacata) and Tequesta people is related to the Tunica language the current name Okeechobee is derived from the Hitchiti word meaning "big water" the Mayaimis have no linguistic or cultural relationship with the Miamis of Great Lakes region the city of Miami is named after the Miami River which derived its name from Lake Mayaimi. Student media Twenty-first century 7.2 Water quality President Harry Truman dedicating Everglades National Park on December 6 1947.