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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM178U_the-lewis-family_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
Coming over from the Bahamas sometime before 1792, Suries and Frankee Lewis and their three sons settled on the banks of the New River and were the first permanent settlers of European descent in what in now Broward County. In 1793, after reports …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1627_mackey-airlines-inc_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
Founded in 1946 by Colonel Joseph Mackey, Mackey Airlines became (August 5, 1952) the first certificated carrier in Broward authorized to engage in scheduled foreign transportation. Operations began January 2, 1953 between Fort Lauderdale, West Pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWY3_fort-lauderdale-beaches-wade-ins_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
On July 4, 1961, local NAACP president Eula Johnson and black physician Dr. Von D. Mizell began a series of nationally publicized "wade-ins" of Fort Lauderdale beaches. Johnson, Mizell, a third black adult, and four black college students particip…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVXB_museum-of-coral-springs-history_Coral-Springs-FL.html
Coral Ridge Properties built the City's first real estate office in 1964 at the intersection of Route 441 and Wiles Road, just outside the City limits. This 30-by-20 foot single-room wooden structure displayed maps and plats of subdivisions, none …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVX9_indian-haulover_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
Bahia Mar is the site of a haulover where Indians took their canoes from New River Sound into the Atlantic Ocean. A Second Seminole War fort named for Major William Lauderdale was built near here in 1838. It was active until the War ended in 1842.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRXE_old-davie-school_Davie-FL.html
This historic structure was the first permanent school in the Everglades and is now Broward County's oldest existing school building. The Davie School was designed in 1917 by August Geiger (born 1888), who came to Miami in 1905 from New Haven, Con…