Broward Neighborhood Tour

Описание: If you don't live in Broward, the odds are that you aren't familiar with Pembroke Pines, Cooper City, Miramar, Ft Lauderdale, Davie, Weston, Hillsboro Beach, and so many other areas in Broward.

Broward County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with over 1.94 million residents as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city are Fort Lauderdale, which had a population of 182,760 as of 2020.

Broward County is one of the three counties that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. It is also one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the entire country.

The county has 31 municipalities (including 24 incorporated cities) and many unincorporated areas. It's also Florida's seventh-largest county in terms of land area, with 1,322.8 square miles (3,426 km2). Broward County's urbanized area occupies 427.8 square miles of land. The largest portion of the county is the Conservation Area which extends to the county's Western border.

The conservation area is 796.9 square miles and consists of wetlands. At its widest points, the County stretches approximately 50.3 miles from east to west and approximately 27.4 miles from north to south, averaging 5 to 25 feet in elevation.

The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago. The first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River, with the main villages on the northern banks.

The inhabitants at the time of first European contact were the Tequesta people, who controlled much of southeastern Florida, including what is now Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and the southern part of Palm Beach County.

The Tequesta Indians fished, hunted, and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food but did not practice any form of agriculture. They buried the small bones of the deceased with the rest of the body and put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see. The Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle.

Broward County was founded on April 30, 1915. It was intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to name it in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, governor of Florida, from 1905 to 1909.

Throughout his term as governor, Broward championed Everglades drainage and was remembered for his campaign to turn the Everglades into "useful land." This opened up much of today's urban Broward County for development, first as agricultural land and later as residential.

A year before Broward became governor, Dania became the first incorporated community of what is now Broward County, followed by Pompano in 1908 and Fort Lauderdale in 1911.

In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County. Dixie Highway was also completed through Broward County in 1915. In 1916, the settlement of "Zona" was renamed Davie in recognition of Robert P. Davie, a land developer who purchased a great deal of reclaimed Everglades land.

Broward County began a huge development boom after its incorporation, with the first "tourist hotel" in Fort Lauderdale opening in 1919. A year later, developers began dredging wetlands in the county to create island communities.

In 1946 Dr. Von D. Mizell and black business owners petitioned the County Commission to make a county beach available to African Americans; at the time, the beaches in Broward County, as elsewhere in Florida, were for whites only. Eight years later, a beach, today Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park, in Dania Beach, was made available, but there was no road to it until 1965.

In the meantime, Mizell and Eula Johnson, with supporters, deliberately violated the law on July 4, 1961, by wading into the water on Ft. Lauderdale beach. The legal process set in motion by this incident resulted in the desegregation of Broward County beaches in 1962.
In 1960, the City of Pembroke Pines was incorporated. This same year marked the opening of Broward College (then Broward Community College).

In 1961, Lauderdale Lakes and Sunrise were incorporated. In 1963, the cities of Coral Springs, North Lauderdale, Parkland, and Tamarac were all incorporated. In 1967, Coconut Creek was incorporated.[16]

The effects of a national recession hit the county in 1974, and the population growth finally slowed. This is from a peak growth percentage change of 297.9%, which saw the population of Broward grow from 83,933 as of 1950 to 333,946 in 1960. The population subsequently experienced an 85.7% population growth which brought the population to a total of 620,100 in 1970.

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