The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
19th century
edit- 1893 - Fort Lauderdale trading post established in Dade County.[1]
- 1896 - Florida East Coast Railroad begins operating.[2]
- 1899 - Schoolhouse established.[1]
20th century
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- 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
- 1913 - Fire station built.
- 1915 - Fort Lauderdale becomes seat of newly created Broward County.[1]
- 1917
- Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club built.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 1941 - Hugh Taylor Birch State Park established.[9]
- 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.[10]
- 1956 - Federal Drive-In cinema in business.[8]
- 1958
- Museum of Art opens.[2]
- WFTL radio begins broadcasting.[10]
- 1959 - Broward Community College founded.
- 1960
- New River Tunnel opens.[7]
- Sun-Sentinel newspaper in publication.[4]
- Davie Boulevard Bridge and SE 3rd Avenue Bridge built.[7]
- 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.[7]
- 1965 - Fort Lauderdale Pictorial Life magazine begins publication.[11]
- 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
- 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).[13][14]
- 1999 - Broward County Central Homeless Assistance Center opens.[15]
- 2000
21st century
edit- 2003 - Fort Lauderdale Fire and Safety Museum founded.[2]
- 2009 - Jack Seiler becomes mayor.
- 2010 - Population: 165,521.[16][17]
- 2014
- Higher-speed rail Fort Lauderdale station (Brightline) construction begins.
- Mormon temple built.
- 2017
- January 6: Fort Lauderdale airport shooting occurs.
- Ted Deutch becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district.[18]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Broward County History: a Timeline" (PDF). Broward County Government. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Hellmann 2006.
- ^ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-28
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Pat Ruby. "Police History". Fort Lauderdale Police Department. City of Fort Lauderdale. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ Wallman, Brittany (March 25, 2019). "Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club added to National Register of Historic Places". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ a b c d Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "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
edit- "Fort Lauderdale". Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R. L. Polk & Co. 1911.
- 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. ISBN 9780738542027.
- Susan Gillis (2004). Fort Lauderdale: The Venice of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 9780738524719.
- 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. 67. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN 0363-3705.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- "Fort Lauderdale". Viva Florida: History Happened Here. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities.
- "(Fort Lauderdale)". Digital Archives of Broward County Library. Broward County Government.
- "(Fort Lauderdale)". Florida Memory. Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services.
- Items related to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)