The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hialeah, Florida, USA.
20th century
edit- 1921 - Hialeah founded with the first plan drawn up and the town named.[1]
- 1924
- Miami-Hialeah Florida East Coast Railway line[2] and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge[3] built.
- Hialeah Women's Club opens town library.
- 1925
- Hialeah incorporated.[4]
- Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.[5]
- Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.[6]
- 1926
- Hurricane.[7]
- Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
- 1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift Bridge opens.[3]
- 1944 - Home News begins publication.[8]
- 1948 - Town of Hialeah Gardens incorporated near Hialeah.
- 1958 - City of Hialeah Public Library building opens.
- 1961 - M.A. Milam Elementary School established.
- 1969 - El Sol de Hialeah newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1970 - El Día newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1971 - Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
- 1973
- KC and the Sunshine Band (musical group) formed.[9]
- TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema[10] in business.
- 1974 - Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye established.
- 1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.[11]
- 1980
- Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
- Apollo North cinema in business.[10]
- 1981 - Raúl L. Martínez becomes mayor.
- 1982 - El Hispano newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1985
- Hialeah station (Metrorail) and Okeechobee station (Metrorail) open.
- El Condado News begins publication.[8]
- 1987 - Mi Casa newspaper begins publication.[8]
- Christian Gomez is born.
- 1989
- Tri-Rail commuter rail Miami Airport station opens.
- Carmike cinema in business.[10]
- 1990
- April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.[12][13]
- Population: 188,004.[14]
- 1993
- U.S. Supreme Court decides animal sacrifice-related Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah in favor of freedom of religion (over city public health regulation).[15]
- Carrie P. Meek becomes U.S. representative for 27th congressional district.[16]
- 1999
- 2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.[5]
21st century
edit- 2005 - Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Westland Hialeah High School and City of Hialeah Educational Academy[11] open.
- 2010 - Population: 224,669.[19][20]
- 2011
- May: Carlos Hernández becomes acting mayor.
- November: Hialeah mayoral election, 2011 held.
- 2013
- January: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes U.S. representative for Florida's newly created 27th congressional district.[21]
- July: Shooting at Todel Apartments.
- 2014 - Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.[22]
- 2015
- 2021: Shooting.
See also
edit- Hialeah history
- List of mayors of Hialeah, Florida
- Timelines of other cities in the South Florida area of Florida: Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, Miami Beach, West Palm Beach
References
edit- ^ Federal Writers’ Project 1941, p. 180.
- ^ Bramson 2008.
- ^ a b Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012
- ^ 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 "History Of Hialeah". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ Hialeah Public Libraries. "Hialeah History Collection". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ Hellmann 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ James Stuart Olson, ed. (1999). Historical Dictionary of the 1970s. USA: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30543-6.
- ^ a b c "Movie Theaters in Hialeah, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ a b Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Hialeah, Florida". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ "Mayor and a Councilman Are Indicted in Hialeah", New York Times, April 4, 1990
- ^ "Hialeah Mayor Guilty Of Selling His Influence", New York Times, March 27, 1991
- ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ M.F. Mikula; et al., eds. (1999), Great American Court Cases, Gale
- ^ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993–1994. hdl:2027/uc1.l0072691827 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "City of Hialeah, Florida Official Web Site". Archived from the original on March 2, 2000 – 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.
- ^ "Hialeah city, Florida". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Hialeah", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
- ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ "ALDI opening second Hialeah store on July 10", Miami Herald, July 2, 2014
- ^ "New watersports complex opens in Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah", Miami Herald, March 28, 2015
- ^ Joe Germuska (ed.). "Hialeah, FL". Censusreporter.org. USA. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
Bibliography
edit- Federal Writers’ Project (1941). "Chronology". Planning Your Vacation in Florida Miami and Dade County. American Guide Series. Northport, NY: Bacon, Percy & Daggett. ISBN 9780404579074.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Peter D. Klingman (1974). "Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Fight of 1937" (PDF). Tequesta. 34. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN 0363-3705 – via Florida International University.
- Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Florida: Hialeah". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
- Seth H. Bramson (2008). The Curtiss-Bright Cities: Hialeah, Miami Springs & Opa Locka. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-386-1.
External links
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