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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.
Julia DeForest Tuttle (née Sturtevant; January 22, 1849 [1] – September 14, 1898) was an American businesswoman who owned the property upon which Miami, Florida, was built. For this reason, she's called the "Mother of Miami." She's the only woman to have founded what would become a major American city. [2]
Destruction in Lakes by the Bay near Miami following Hurricane Andrew. Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 struck Homestead, just south of Miami, as a Category 5 hurricane, leaving forty people dead, 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed, more than a million people left without electricity, and damages of $20–30 billion. Much of South Florida's ...
The Miami Herald reports that over the past several months, It's being called one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US. Ancient village discovered in downtown Miami
Miami Chamber of Commerce established. [8] Town of Miami Beach incorporated near Miami. 1916 – David Fairchild establishes The Kampong, his winter home in Coconut Grove. 1917 – Elser Pier opens. [9] 1918 – Airdrome Theatre and Strand Theatre open. [10] 1919 Coconut Grove is incorporated. [3] Great Miami Employers' Association established ...
Veloso, 27, discovered Miami’s wrestling scene thanks to his first CCW show at Doral’s Tripping Animals in June. By his third show, he stopped at the merch table to purchase a “Domino ...
An untold number of processed Miami-Dade County ballots were found on the side of a road overnight in Cutler Bay after containers holding them fell off a county truck, the Elections Department said.
The Miami Circle, also known as The Miami River Circle, Brickell Point, or The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, is an archaeological site in Brickell, Miami, Florida. It consists of a perfect circle measuring 38 feet (11.5m) of 600 postmolds that contain 24 holes or basins cut into the limestone bedrock , on a coastal spit of land ...