Only three Americans survived the battle. In , Dade County decided to do more or less what some Broward residents are doing now. The river itself was named after the Mayaimi native peoples of the Lake Okeechobee area.
They called themselves the Mayaimis because that is what they called Lake Okeechobee. Mayaimi is a word that meant "big water" to the Mayaimi, Calusa and Tequesta tribes Okeechobee is the Hitchiti equivalent. The Mayaimi lived there from the beginning of the common era through the 17th or 18th centuries, when they were effectively killed, sold off in slavery, or made to flee to other parts as refugees.
Which brings us to the point of this musing: if all of this background were not spelled out for the general population, would anybody know any of this history? Or better yet, would they even care? The argument for changing the name of Broward County to Lauderdale County is essentially for marketing purposes, which underscores both the shallowness that our region is known for, and recognition that marketing is a big deal in tangible terms when you rely on tourism dollars for your local economy.
Miami was well established as a brand-name destination when the county made the decision to change its name. Now some minds in Broward feel that Fort Lauderdale has reached that critical mass of notoriety.
But do we just forget about our history and hop onto the next best thing? Does history even matter in America 2. No matter how distant and problematic his history might be, Lauderdale is a figure of significance to Florida, as were Broward and Dade. But the red flag that we should all be thinking about is the notion that marketing forces should dictate the names of the places where we live. One can hardly think of something that gets any closer to the core of our identity.
Mosquito County itself became Orange County after it was decided that mosquitos repelled people, as opposed to attracting them. Out of this county all the aforementioned counties were forged. Flagler's successors made plans to double-track the FEC and a second railroad, today's Seaboard Coast Line, was extended southward toward Miami.
Young and others moved toward creation of Port Everglades. But, none of this could be done quickly enough. The backlog of goods at Jacksonville so critical that, on October 29, , the FEC had to embargo everything except food or items for which special permits had been obtained.
The effect on construction was catastrophic and this soon was followed by a drying up of credit. Northern banks long had felt that the boom, with its paper-thin operating margins and spiraling prices fed by speculative trading of both property and purchase options, was too giddy to last. By early , they were becoming very cautious with their money. The most speculative developers were wiped out then and there. Others, including Young, might have been able to weather the downturn, but they could not weather great hurricane that roared out of the Caribbean and smashed squarely into south Broward on September 17 and 18, There were 34 verified deaths.
Observers insisted, however, that the real toll was much higher. Damage in Fort Lauderdale was less, but still considerable. Fifteen were dead. North Broward, which had both fewer people and lighter winds, had no deaths and only minor damage. In the long run, however, the worst damage was done by the black headlines in northern newspapers that scared away potential replacements for those who either had died or fled. For south Florida, the Depression began three years before it hit the rest of the nation.
In Dania and Hallandale regained their independence, the latter to be its own city for the first time. Davie's charter lapsed, not to be renewed for 35 years, and Floranada, shorn of much of its territory, was reincorporated as Oakland Park.
Yet, the collapse was not so total as commonly believed. While the s was not the best of times in Broward, it was not the worst, either. And growth had not stopped, it merely had paused. Population went from the 14, of to 20, in and to 39, in On December 19, , the British cruiser "Orion" chased the German freighter "Arauca" into Port Everglades, where she remained until when seized by the United States.
The closest the area came to combat was in the week beginning May 4, , when German submarines off southeast Florida torpedoed seven ships, one of which limped into Port Everglades. That, and the landing of four Germans near Jacksonville two months later, led to several countermeasures. Watch towers were set up along the ocean. The beaches were closed at night and patrolled by mounted Coast Guardsmen with attack dogs. The tops of headlights were blacked out and street lights hooded.
Boaters and Civil Air Patrol pilots searched for U-boats. As far as Broward's future was concerned, however, the most significant thing about the war was the plethora of training bases that were established. When peace came, thousands of service men recalled how nice it had been in Broward. With their families, they returned.
Thousands of others joined them. The greatest boom was on. Even in these days of trillion dollar gross national products, the figures are sobering. In the 30 years from to , Fort Lauderdale's population shot from 17, to , Hollywood went from 6, to ,; Pompano Beach from 4, to 38,; and Hallandale from 1, to 23, Plantation, which was just getting started in , had grown to 23, by New cities came into being everywhere and old ones grew.
In the county still had only the seven active municipalities of Hillsboro Beach had been charter din but was not active until Hacienda Village was added in and Wilton Manors in But, the explosion was still to come in the next two decades.
As the county's population soared toward a million, a few of the developers became overextended or came under criticism because of the close ties between their firms and the cities which they had created. Also, a growing number of newcomers feared that too-rapid growth would bring to their new homes those problems which they had left behind in their old ones. As the s dawned, they began demanding that their cities opt for slower growth and lower limits on the number of residences per acre.
Gradually, governments began to respond. Yet, when growth finally paused in it was not as a result of municipal actions. Instead, south Florida was just one more victim of a recession which was sweeping the nation. It was not the inability to build that cooled the boom. Rather, it was the inability to sell. At one point, there were an estimated 50, unsold condominium apartments in the area.
By the building industry began to revive. With it came a concern that the uncontrolled and, sometimes, unwise growth that characterized the past would not be repeated. A new county charter gave Broward's government broad powers to monitor and improve the quality of life and the environment. The passage of the Land Use Plan was a major step toward limiting urban sprawl and insuring that the area's resources, natural, economic and social, would be put to their best use.
Broward County is part of the Miami Metropolitan Area. Broward County was created in The county seat is Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In less than a century, a land "unfit for human habitation" has been turned in to the permanent home of over a million people and the winter residence of tens of thousands more. In earlier times, it could not have happened. Today's Broward County is very much a product of the industrial age. The sun and sand and sea have been here for millennia, but the roads, railroads and seaport are new additions which have vastly transformed the area's landscape.
A Short History of Broward County. As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1, square miles 3, km 2. Approximately two-thirds - square miles 2, km 2 - of the county's area lies in an undeveloped Everglades conservation area.
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