City of Ft. Lauderdale - 100 Years - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Community Commemoration on Waymarking.com

The tile reads:

"City of Fort Lauderdale
Proudly Honors Our

100th BIRTHDAY
MARCH 27, 1911 - MARCH 27, 2011

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
MAY 28, 2011"

Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.

Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.

When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.

On 4 July 1961 African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On 11 July 1962 a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.

Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center,[24] one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people."

Subject: City Commemoration: March 27, 2011 Date of Founding: March 27, 1911 Date of Commemoration: March 28, 2011 Address: Las Olas and A1A Ft. Lauderdale, FL Overview Photograph: Yes Detail Photograph: Yes Web site if available: [Web Link]

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