Miami-Dade County is bursting of anonymity from a Genealogical and chronological characteristic. At the same time as the recent history of Dade County begins with the influx of the first everlasting white settlers, in the early part of the 19th century, the isolation of the area limited its development to a handful of farms and plantations, plus a few small settlements, until the arrival of the railroad in 1896. The city of Miami was integrated in the same year. The innovative Dade County settlements were all built near the Biscayne Bay, but the great influx of new residents, in the early 1900s, made it compulsory to build canals to drain the uninhabitable land of the Everglades. The sturdy arrival of newcomers gave way to the Florida Land Boom of the 1920's, but transportation problems, a major hurricane and, at last, the Great Depression, brought the Boom to a close down.
Secure increase sustained, though, and in the years following World War Two, the county has become a foremost metropolitan area. The arrival of Cuban refugees in the 1960s and 1980s, plus a huge arrival of other immigrants, has transformed Dade into a multi-cultural society. In 1991, the population of Dade County was nearly two million. Tourism and transportation are among the chief industries, along with light industry, creation and fishing. There are twenty-five incorporated towns and cities in the county. The leading, at around 350,000 people, is the county seat, Miami. In review, Dade County was legitimately planned from Monroe County February 4, 1836. A few one hundred sixty one years later, November 13, 1997, Miami -Dade County has emerged. As with a few revolutionize in a biased organization, the voters decided that amplified name gratitude was worth the change. (Abby Goodnough, 2004)
Miami is the leading city of a metropolitan region that dominates southern Florida....................
