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Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, a large portion of south east Florida, including the area where Miami, Florida exists today, was inhabited by Tequestas.The Tequesta (also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos) Native American tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Miami, [b] officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the United States. [9]
Located in the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza in Miami, Florida, HistoryMiami Museum is a 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m 2) facility and home to more than one million historic images and 30,000 three-dimensional artifacts, including a 1920s trolley car, gold and silver recovered from 17th- and 18th-century shipwrecks, artifacts from Pan American World Airways, and rafts that brought refugees to Miami.
He wrote columns for The Miami News and Miami Herald
The county seat was originally at Indian Key in the Florida Keys; then in 1844, the County seat was moved to Miami. The Florida Keys from Key Largo to Bahia Honda were returned to Monroe County in 1866. In 1888 the county seat was moved to Juno, near present-day Juno Beach, Florida, returning to Miami in 1899. In 1909, Palm Beach County was ...
Miami historian and preservationist Enid Pinkney died Thursday at age 92, her nephew Gary Allen confirmed. Pinkney’s passion for preserving the history of Miami’s Black pioneers, landmarks and ...
The true history of what happened on July 28, 1896 is something that can’t even be found on the city of Miami website. At the time, Florida required at least 300 registered voters for a city to ...