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Fort Lauderdale, FL - History
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Welcome to the Fort Lauderdale Home page. The Fort Lauderdale Home page provides as much information as possible on Fort Lauderdale. Knowing Fort Lauderdale’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fort Lauderdale’s Home page, you will also find Fort Lauderdale’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Fort Lauderdale has a population of 181818. 51.7% of Fort Lauderdale’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.3 are female. 36.4% of Fort Lauderdale is married and 53.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $350,886, and the average rent is $1,353. Household median income in Fort Lauderdale is $64,313, and the individual median income is $32,571. Fort Lauderdale’s Ethnic is the following: White(60.2%), Black(31.5%), Hispanic(18.7%), Multiple(4.1%), Other(2.2%), Asian(1.5%), Native(0.3%), Pacific(0.1%).
Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth largest city in Florida. After Miami, Fort Lauderdale is the second principal city (as defined by the U.S.
government) in the Miami metropolitan area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019.Built in 1838 and first incorporated in 1911, Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale.
Development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed including the first at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the present-day Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.Known as the “Venice of America", Fort Lauderdale has 165-miles of inland waterways across the city.In addition to tourism, Fort Lauderdale has a diversified economy including marine, manufacturing, finance, insurance, real estate, high technology, avionics/aerospace, film, and television production.
The city is a popular tourist destination with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale, encompassing all of Broward County, hosted more than 13 million overnight visitors in 2018. Each year nearly 4 million cruise passengers pass through its Port Everglades, making it the third largest cruise port in the world.
With over 50,000 registered yachts and 100 marinas, Fort Lauderdale is also known as the yachting capital of the world."
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