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Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is the county seat of Broward County, and a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area.
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The
city of Fort Lauderdale is adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, includes 7 miles of
beaches, and borders the following municipalities:
On its east:
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Sea Ranch Lakes
On its south:
Hollywood, Dania Beach
On its southwest:
Davie
On its west:
Plantation, Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, Cooper City
On its northwest:
North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Tamarac
On its north:
Wilton Manors, Pompano Beach
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend, in what is now known as the Sailboat Bend neighborhood, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, who was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than a thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases to which the native populations possessed no resistance, such as smallpox. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West. 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.
Lockhart Stadium, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a stadium that has served as home of the Florida Atlantic University football team. The stadium is also currently used by Fort Lauderdale High School for home high school football games. Built in 1959 as an athletic facility for local high schools, it is part of a sports complex that also includes Fort Lauderdale Stadium. The stadium is owned by the City of Fort Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale Stadium is located next to Lockhart Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles have held their spring training at Ft. Lauderdale. The stadium has also hosted Semi-Pro Federal League games throughout the year. In addition, the New York Yankees trained at that stadium from 1962 until 1995. While in Fort Lauderdale, the Yankees once had a farm club there.
Five institutions of higher learning have main or satellite campuses in the city:
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Broward College (Willis Holcombe Downtown
Center), City College, Florida Atlantic University (satellite campus), Florida
International University (satellite campus), Keiser University, Nova Southeastern
University (satellite campus), University of Phoenix (The Cypress Creek Learning
Center)
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