Plantation (Broward County, Florida)

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Plantation
Map of Florida highlighting Plantation.png
County and state location
Basic data
Foundation : 1953
State : United States
State : Florida
County : Broward County
Coordinates : 26 ° 7 ′  N , 80 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 26 ° 7 ′  N , 80 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 84,955 (status: 2010)
5,564,635 (status: 2010)
Population density : 1,509 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 56.8 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 ) of
which 56.3 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 2.75 m
Postcodes : 33311, 33313, 33317, 33322-33325, 33388
Area code : +1 754, 954
FIPS : 12-57425
GNIS ID : 0289024
Website : www.plantation.org
Mayor : Diane Veltri Bendekovic

Plantation is a city in Broward County in the US state of Florida with 84,955 inhabitants (as of 2010).

geography

Plantation is about 30 km north of Miami . Bordering municipalities are Sunrise , Lauderhill , Fort Lauderdale, and Davie .

climate

The highest temperatures are in May to October, with up to 33 ° C. The coldest months from December to February with an average of only 12 ° C. Snowfall is almost unknown in the region.

history

Indians had lived in Florida for thousands of years long before the first Spanish explorers and conquerors advanced to the southeastern regions of North America. The Tequesta Indian tribe lived in southern Florida for about 2000 years, until the beginning of the 18th century . They lived near beaches, estuaries and in the small bays. They did not have a strong agriculture, but already produced their own flour and processed different roots. The main food, however, was fish and various seafood. They worked as fishermen and seafarers. Their traces can also be found in Cuba . The Tequesta buried their dead in specially built mounds. There is such a mound at the 14th hole of the Plantation Country Club. The burial site was uncovered in 1975 by Wilma Williams. Pottery, tools, animal bones and the human bones of a woman were found during the excavation. The 14th hole has since been jokingly given the Indian nickname "Funnee-Okko-Pokko", which means "pile of bones".

After Juan Ponce de León other explorers, conquerors and colonists came to this area. The Sequesta tribe gradually disappeared. The relationship with the European invaders was not good in the end. Too often they have been lied to and enslaved for that. Some tequesta were killed in fighting with the Europeans, but most died of diseases brought in by the Europeans.

By 1800, most of the Indian tribes had disappeared from Florida. The Creek tribe, who actually lived in Georgia and Alabama , moved to northern Florida. These "refugees" were called "Seminoles", Creek word for refugees, runaways. The Seminoles settled down, grew crops and raised cattle, pigs and chickens. They built their huts on stilts at the edge of a body of water. Fearing the whites, they gave up their lands and withdrew further into the swampy areas of the Everglades. The center of their lives was hunting and bartering, as they exchanged the skins of alligators, deer, raccoons and otters at the trading posts mainly for food, cloth, traps and ammunition. In the Everglades, they moved in canoes up to 10 meters long, which were light enough and had enough buoyancy to travel over the shallow water of the marshland.

In 1906 an engineering unit of the military examined the possibilities of draining the Everglades. That was the starting shot for many land speculators. More and more people began moving to the area in 1911 when it was revealed that an area between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades had been drained and turned into a plantation. The “Sewell Locks” were built so that the products could be transported to Okeechobee Lake in wooden barges. Today the “Sewell Locks” are a national monument. Even in the 1920s, Broward County remained a stretch of land with little development and infrastructure, apart from the railway line on the east coast and the Dixie Highway, which at that time was little more than an alley. The further plans of draining the Everglades triggered a real buying boom among land speculators, which, however, did not last long. A hurricane raging in Broward County destroyed almost all of the ready-made buildings.

In 1931 Plantation's future founder, Frederick C. Peters and his family, moved from Missouri to Dade South County, now Miami-Dade County . He introduced the red potato, later famous for Florida, discovered the underground freshwater system and brought Hereford cattle to Broward County, which was then almost uninhabited.

In the 1940s , like the rest of the nation, Broward County underwent some radical changes due to World War II and the expansion of its economy. In 1949 the homeowners association was founded by Dr. Abram Hoffman launched in Plantation. At that time there were about 40 houses. The area was not developed. There was no street lighting, phone or post yet. But the first people were inexorably drawn to the south. The Plantation Country Club was founded in the 1950s. It became the social center of the city.

With a population of approximately 500 and a budget of $ 1,288 , Plantation City was founded on April 30, 1953. The first council meeting took place on May 11th in an old feed warehouse. A police department was established in 1955. The library was built in 1968. In the 1970s, thousands moved to this area and the city grew very quickly. In 1982 the population had grown to 50,000 and the annual budget was USD 64 million.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census, the then 84,955 inhabitants were distributed over 37,587 households. The population density was 1509 inhabitants / km². 69.9% of the population identified themselves as whites , 20.3% as African American , 0.2% as Indians and 3.9% as Asian Americans . 2.9% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.9% to several ethnic groups. 20.4% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

In 2010 children under 18 years of age and 24.6% of all households lived in 31.4% of all households with persons at least 65 years of age. 66.0% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.47 people and the average family size was 3.01 people.

23.5% of the population were younger than 20 years, 26.9% were 20 to 39 years old, 30.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.5% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 40 years. 47.4% of the population were male and 52.6% were female.

Attractions

On February 17, 1978, Lock No. 1, North New River Canal inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places .

economy

The largest employers in 2018 were:

employer Workers
Alorica 2000
DHL 1 1400
Motorola 1200
Chetu 1160
The Castle Group 1100
TradeStation 1000
Broward County School Board 963
Broward County 900
Westside Medical Center 750
City of Plantation 744
1 America headquarters

schools

  • Plantation Middle School (approx. 1350 students)
  • Seminole Middle School (approx. 1300 students)
  • Central Parl Elementary School (approx. 1200 students)
  • Tropical Elementary School (approx. 1000 students)

Further educational institutions

  • Plantation High School (approx. 2800 students)
  • South Plantation High School (approx. 2,650 students)
  • American Heritage School (approx. 1700 students)

There are further secondary educational institutions in Fort Lauderdale , which is about 10 km away : the "Keizer College" (about 2800 students), the "Broward Community College" (about 12,500 students), the "Art Institute" (about 2500 students), the Nova Southeastern University (approximately 12,500 students). The "Barry University" (about 5700 students) and the "Miami-Dade Community College" with about 25,300 students are located in Miami.

Parks and sports facilities

There is a wide range of different city parks as well as several sporting facilities, as well as playgrounds and opportunities for camping. Sports options include softball, baseball, football, basketball, soccer and swimming.

traffic

US Highway 441 and Florida State Roads 91 (Florida's Turnpike) , 817 , 838 and 842 run through Plantation . In addition, the I-595 / SR 84 borders the city in the south. The nearest airport is Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport approximately 10 km east.

crime

The crime rate in 2010 was 327 points (US average: 266 points) in the average range. There were two murders, 14 rapes, 124 robberies, 151 physical injuries, 779 break-ins, 2732 thefts, 244 car thefts and five arson attacks.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Plantation, Florida  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Preliminary Review and Bibliography of Human Skeletal Remains Curated by the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History (2007)
  2. ^ Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  3. ^ Florida - Broward County. National Register of Historic Places , accessed July 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Plantation 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report , at http://www.plantation.org , accessed March 31, 2020
  5. ↑ http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Plantation-Florida.html