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Posted on 18.11.2015, 04.04.2017
One of the most famous coastal resort city in the world, Miami Beach is located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami city. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century, the Town of Miami Beach being chartered in 1915; it grew to become a city in 1917. Carl Fisher was the main promoter of Miami Beach's development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here. |
| 2045 Miami Beach - Art Deco Historic District |
To accommodate the wealthy tourists, several grand hotels were built. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses, for seasonal rental. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida and dramatically changed the demographic make-up of the area.
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