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Showing posts with label Broward County history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broward County history. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Davie, Florida, Cowboy Town and the Panama Canal Zone

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Rodeo in Davie 1991 State of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan Many associate the Broward County town of Davie with its Western vibe of cowboy...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Florida's second most populous county by the numbers: Broward in 1980 and 2020s

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  Aerial view of Pompano Beach 1980 State Archives of Florida Broward County accounts for 8.8 percent of Florida’s population (2022). It is ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Seaweed, a frequent Florida visitor (only more of it these days)

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Ernie Settembre with seaweed catch  1948/State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan South Florida beachgoers climb over smelly seaweed clumps ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Broward County School lunches: then, now and WOW

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FLHS 2022, a retro look   By Jane Feehan Many at Fort Lauderdale High and other Broward County schools during the 1960s and 70s turned u...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Pearl Harbor spurs Broward County and Fort Lauderdale defenses for WWII

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  Fort Lauderdale Beach 1941  State of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan The focus on Fort Lauderdale and Broward County war relief efforts fo...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Seminoles attend their first school in Broward County despite warnings of "learning how to lie"

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Seminole children & teacher,Dania c. 1930 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Seminoles did not attend school regularly in Florida unt...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Florida shows signs of growth and development in the 1940s

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Scenic New River Fort Lauderdale 1948 Florida State Archives In  June 1945 , the final official Florida State Census revealed the follow...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Fort Lauderdale's Dooley's Basin and Dry Dock, WWII efforts and Broward Marine

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Minesweepers under construction during the 1950s Fort Lauderdale's Dooley’s Basin and Dry Dock, established in 1937 by Paul Dooley, buil...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Napoleon Bonaparte Broward and Everglades drainage disappointment

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Former Gov. Jennings w Gov. Broward (r) on Everglades tour 1906, Florida State Archive By Jane Feehan Few governors of Florida can claim the...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Murf the Surf: Jewel thief, murderer and violin prodigy

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Star of India Picture taken by Daniel Torres, Jr. January 14, 2007,                                    via Wikimedia Commons By Jane Feehan ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Broward County's Female Firsts

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By Jane Feehan Broward County can boast about a few female firsts . Below are several of these "first women" who made s...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Fort Lauderdale boom brings first bank heist, second in Broward County

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By Jane Feehan John Ashley, far right, entering prison  Fort Lauderdale’s boom era of the 1950s brought development, population growth,...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Prohibition arrests leave Broward, Fort Lauderdale high and dry without local law enforcement

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Man raising his glass in a toast. 19--.  State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory . By Jane Feehan Liquor flowed to and fr...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Dooley's coffin nails - building ships for WWII in Broward County

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Fort Lauderdale beach today By Jane Feehan Thousands of military trained in South Florida in preparation for World War II,...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Broward County reaches milestone in 1966

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Broward County reached a milestone in 1966. By the end of March that year, 500,000 people claimed the county as permanent residence. The h...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Broward County's Black-White teacher exchange and desegregation

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By Jane Feehan Though public schools in the U.S. were ordered to desegregate in 1954 ( Brown v. Board of Education ), they remained seg...