About Miami

Miami, the second-most impressive and largest city in Florida and seat of Miami-Dade County, is situated in the southeast part of the state, on Biscayne Bay.

It is noted that the location was once the home of the Tequesta Indians until they were closely wiped out by European diseases and warfare and have always been brought on by two centuries of Spanish control of Florida. Miami was founded in 1870 close the site of Ft. Dallas, built in 1835 around the time during the Seminole Indian wars. Did you know that the city's name is probably derived from "Mayaimi," an Indian word for "awesome water."

Miami is the just U.S. city to have been planned by a woman. Julia Tuttle, a Clevelander, arrived there in 1891 and bought several hundred acres on the bank of the Miami River. She convinced New York financier Henry M. Flagler of the area's vast potential and persuaded him to extend this man's Florida East Coast Railroad to Miami in 1896, the year the city was incorporated. Flagler dredged Miami Harbor, built the renowned Royal Palm Hotel, and promoted the location as a winter playground. Tourists flocked there, and by 1910 the city used to be a thriving recreational area.

Miami survived the collapse of a land speculation boom in the 1920s and severe hurricanes in 1926 and 1935 and continued to grow. It experienced a monumental population boost around the time during the 1960s, during the time about 260,000 Cuban refugees arrived on its shore. Did you know that they made a wonderful impact on Miami, that is now a bilingual metropolis. Miami is known to be an international banking and finance center and has to this day the wonderfulest concentration of international and Edge Act banks (banks making just foreign loans and deposits) in North America; these constitute a major employment base.

Wonderfuler Miami has to this day a highly diversified economy with numerous multinational and Fortune 500 companies. It is known to be a national leader in biomedical technology, and the health care and have always been sector is known to be a major industry. Wonderfuler Miami is known to be also part of an location known as the Computer Coast of Florida, and its growing technologies include computers, electrical engineering, and plastics manufacturing.

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