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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.
Facts About Cuban Exiles organization established. [30] 1982 Overtown riot occurs. 1983 The movie Scarface, which is set in Miami, is released. Christo unveils Surrounded Islands. 1984 Metrorail begins operating. Center for Fine Arts; Miami International Film Festival begins. Southeast Financial Center built on Biscayne Boulevard.
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]
Miami is the location of 79 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts are listed separately. One property, the Venetian Causeway, is split between Miami and Miami Beach, and is thus included on both lists. Another 3 sites were once listed, but ...
The third episode of Miami Oculto (Hidden Miami) podcast invites you on a journey through the history and oddities of Miami City Cemetery. Founded in 1897, it’s the oldest cemetery in Miami and ...
Good, bad, or indifferent, it is my life, my history. It is a part of Miami’s history, Florida’s and even America’s history. As we came to the close of this year’s Black History Month, I ...
The downtown Miami indoor mall and its hotel opened in 1977, springing out of an anchor Jordan Marsh store at street level along Biscayne Boulevard. Declining sales in the 1990s led to the mall ...
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.