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Presented by the Fort Lauderdale Centennial Speaker’s BureauImages courtesy the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society &
Broward County Historical Commission & Fort Lauderdale Woman’s Club & SW FL Museum of History
1911-2011A Brief History of the Venice of America
1880s Tequesta and their ancestors here for thousands of years. First European settlers in the late 18th C.
New River
1838 First “fort” founded in 1838 by William Lauderdale after Seminoles killed family of William Cooley 1836 (Now Cooley’s Landing).
Drawing of third and most permanent fort.
House of Refuge built. In 1890s relocated to site of south beach. Later became Coast Guard.
Party at House of Refuge 1911
1876
1896First through FEC train arrives April 1896. African American pioneers work on FEC RR.
Stranahan’s camp, 1890s
1902 Seminoles in area since before 1800; had many camps along New River, and North fork by 1902 near I-95 & Broward. Ceremonial grounds were at Pine Island.
1902 Marshall Packinghouse south fork New River ca. 1902-1910
Fort Lauderdale was on“high ground” good for farming
1906 Map looking west showing New River, Bay Mable (Port E), farms and citrus groves, planned NNR Canal and the shrinking Everglades 1906
Arrow points to eastern extent of “Everglades” —about I-95
1906Everglades drainage project—began with North New River Canal off the South Fork of New River 1906-1912.
Celebration of completion of North New River Canal 1912
1908 Where rail and river met was new center of town. Fort Lauderdale became “The Gateway to the Everglades.”
View from FEC RR bridge of vegetable docks at foot of Brickell Avenue. Today this is the south end of Las Olas Riverfront. This was the heart of town.
1909 “Winter Vegetable Shipping Capital of the South”/ “The Gateway to the Everglades”.Over 100,000 crates of vegetables shipped in 1909
1910 Andrews look N, late 1910s city hall and fire station at center—at intersection of what is now SW 2nd ST and Andrews
1910Farmers grew just about everything, largest cash crop here was tomatoes (“pines,” peppers, eggplants; beans big in Pompano).
1911
Jan 1911, Board of Trade asked that ladies form the Women’s Civic Improvement Assn. Woman’s Club formed before town for “civic improvements”
1911
Land sale March-April 1911. Thousands of people in a town of 200-300 residents prompted Fort Lauderdale to incorporate March 1911.
$240 ($5616 in 2011 $$) entitled you to a lot in Progresso (now Croissant Park) and a “farm” in the Everglades of indeterminate size (about 10 acres) and location. According to Thomas E. Watson in the Jeffersonian Magazine, “land increased in value during the past two years from $2.50 an acre to $2500 an acre for a lot in town.”
1911Population 1910 census: 143 (Probably 200-300 residents)
People pouring into Fort Lauderdale (3000-5000) for drained Everglades land resulted in incorporation
March 27,1911:
45 registered voters
Most important reason:sanitation!!
1912
North New River Canal lock #1 (I 595 and Davie Road) New town of Zona (Davie) created 1912 from drained land
20,000 farms sold “west of Fort Lauderdale” by 1910 according to the Homeseeker
1912 Fire of 1912 looking NE from RR bridge.Note Fort Lauderdale Sentinel Building at Andrews and SE 2nd ST (near where main library is today)
1913
The city rebuilds—looking SW along Brickell Avenue. Note the Osceola Inn at center, which would burn to the ground in July of 1913. The corner of the New River Inn can be seen at far right.
1913
Stranahan House about 1913 after renovations. This was probably the easternmost residence except for the Las Olas Inn.
East Las Olas about SE3rd ST
look NE ca. 1915
1914
Fort Lauderdale’s (white) school was located on Andrews at about SW 5th Street.
Af Am students attended a school at NW4th Street and NW4 Avenue. (No known photos)
1920sThe beach finally became important as an attraction.
Dredging Las Olas Isles begins ca 1919.
Boom of the 1920s Real estate and tourism replaced farming as focus
1935Depression: Fort Lauderdale perseveres...Williams McWilliams Ice Cream
T.S. Cobbs, Beddorest Company
WWII Naval Air Station
Now FLL Airport
George H.W. Bush pilot here.Origin of Flight 19 Dec 5, 1945
1945
1950sProvident hospitalMosquito ditches
Air conditioning & new pest control techniques forever change SoFL
1960s Fort Lauderdale became a well known tennis center—Evert family 1960s.ISHOF construction 1965 (Behind Casino Pool).
1972In 1960s Fort Lauderdale grew 75% –fastest growing city in the state.
1970s—the growth of Broward County too.
I-95 looking south at Davie Blvd intersection 1972 (BCHC)