Timeline of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

19th century

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1893 - Fort Lauderdale trading post established in Dade County.^[1]
1896 - Florida East Coast Railroad begins operating.^[2]
1899 - Schoolhouse established.^[1]

20th century

1901 - Stranahan house built.^[1]
1910 - Population: 336.
1911
- Fort Lauderdale incorporated.^[3]
- Fort Lauderdale Sentinel newspaper begins publication.^[4]
- Office of city marshall created.^[5]
1912
- North New River Canal built.^[1]
- W.H. Marshall becomes mayor.
1913 - Fire station built.
1915 - Fort Lauderdale becomes seat of newly created Broward County.^[1]
1917 - Las Olas Boulevard built.
1919 - Filmmaker D.W. Griffith films The Idol Dancer and The Love Flower in Fort Lauderdale.^[1]
1925 - Snow-Reed Swing Bridge and Grand Canal Arch Deck Bridge built.^[6]
1926 - September 18: 1926 Miami hurricane occurs.
1927 - Fort Lauderdale station built.
1928
- County Courthouse built.^[2]
- Port Everglades opens.
1930 - Population: 8,668.
1935 - Hurricane occurs.^[2]
1939 - Florida Theatre in business.^[7]
1941 - Hugh Taylor Birch State Park established.^[8]
1948
- Broward County International Airport opens.^[1]
- City Hall rebuilt.^[5]
1950
- War Memorial Auditorium opens.^[2]
- Population: 36,328.
1955 - WWIL radio begins broadcasting.^[9]
1956 - Federal Drive-In cinema in business.^[7]
1958
- Museum of Art opens.^[2]
- WFTL radio begins broadcasting.^[9]
1959 - Broward Community College founded.
1960
- New River Tunnel opens.^[6]
- Sun-Sentinel newspaper in publication.^[4]
- Davie Boulevard Bridge and SE 3rd Avenue Bridge built.^[6]
- Population: 83,648.
1962
- Fort Lauderdale Stadium opens.
- Fort Lauderdale Historical Society and Fort Lauderdale Yankees baseball team formed.
1963 - Fort Lauderdale High School built.
1964
- Nova Southeastern University founded.^[2]
- Marshall Memorial Bridge built.^[6]
1965 - Fort Lauderdale Pictorial Life magazine begins publication.^[10]
1967 - Parker Playhouse opens.
1970 - Population: 139,122.
1971 - Regional Broward County Transit formed.^[1]
1972 - Broward County Historical Commission founded.^[1]
1974 - Broward County Library System established.^[1]
1977
- Snowfall occurs.^[1]
- Genealogical Society of Broward County chartered.^[11]
1983 - Municipal jail begins operating.^[5]
1989 - Regional Tri-Rail begins operating.
1991 - Broward Center for the Performing Arts opens.
1992 - August: Hurricane Andrew occurs.^[5]
1998 - City website online (approximate date).^[12]^[13]
1999 - Broward County Central Homeless Assistance Center opens.^[14]
2000
- Nutrition Center opens.^[14]
- Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum active.

21st century

2003 - Fort Lauderdale Fire and Safety Museum founded.
2009 - Jack Seiler becomes mayor.
2010 - Population: 165,521.^[15]^[16]
2014
- Higher-speed rail Fort Lauderdale station (Brightline) construction begins.
- Mormon church built.
2017
- January 6: 2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting occurs.
- Ted Deutch becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district.^[17]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Broward County History: a Timeline" (PDF). Broward County Government. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Hellmann 2006.
↑ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee
1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
1 2 3 4 Pat Ruby. "Police History". Fort Lauderdale Police Department. City of Fort Lauderdale. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
1 2 3 4 Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012
1 2 "Movie Theaters in Fort Lauderdale, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
↑ Florida Division of Recreation and Parks. "Region: Southeast". Florida State Parks. Tallahassee: Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
1 2 "United States AM Stations: Florida", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive
↑ "Gold Coast magazine: 50 years of chronicling glamor", Sun-Sentinel, April 20, 2015
↑ "Genealogical Society of Broward County". Retrieved April 26, 2017 – via Ancestry.com.
↑ "City of Fort Lauderdale Online". Archived from the original on December 12, 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
↑ Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Florida". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.
1 2 "Timeline: Homeless in Broward County", Sun-Sentinel, November 12, 2014
↑ "Fort Lauderdale city, FL". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
↑ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Fort Lauderdale", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

Bibliography

"Fort Lauderdale". Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R. L. Polk & Co. 1911.
- 1918 ed.
Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Fort Lauderdale". Florida: a Guide to the Southernmost State. American Guide Series. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 317–318.
Philip J. Weidling and August Burghard. Checkered Sunshine: The Story of Fort Lauderdale, 1793-1955 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966)
Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Ft. Lauderdale, FL", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
Susan Gillis; Daniel T. Hobb (1999). Fort Lauderdale. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia.
Susan Gillis (2004). Fort Lauderdale: The Venice of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia.
Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Florida: Fort Lauderdale". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
William G. Crawford, Jr. (2007). "Long Hard Fight for Equal Rights: A History of Broward County's Colored Beach and the Fort Lauderdale Beach "Wade-ins' of the Summer of 1961" (PDF). Tequesta. Historical Association of Southern Florida. 67. ISSN 0363-3705.

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