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n o t e s Chapter 1 1. P. Mercer, ‘‘Miamians Tangle with Developers Over Curious Tequesta Indian Ruin,’’ New York Times, February 15, 1999; BBC, ‘‘The Mystery of the Miami Circle ,’’ January 25, 2001 (www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/miamicircle_ transcript.shtm l); M. Bawaya, ‘‘The Amazing Tale of the Miami Circle,’’ American Archaeology 6 (2001): 12–19; Florida Dept. of State, Bureau of Archaeology, ‘‘Miami Circle’’ (2007) (www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/miamicircle/ index.cfm); R. Wheeler, and R. S. Carr, ‘‘The Miami Circle: Fieldwork, Research and Analysis,’’ The Florida Anthropologist 57 (2004): 3–10. 2. J. H. Hann, Indians of Central and South Florida, 1513–1763 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003); W. E. McGoun, Ancient Miamians: The Tequesta of South Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002). 3. The numbers are based on data from the U.S. census. For an overview of Dade County’s demographic history, see Miami-Dade County, Department of Planning and Zoning, Miami-Dade County Facts, July 2005. For a comparative perspective on the history of urbanization in the United States, see C. Gibson, ‘‘Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States, 1790 to 1990,’’ Population Division Working Paper No. 27 (Washington, D.C.: Population Division U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1998) (www.census.gov/population/www/ documentation/twps0027.html). 4. R. Mohl, ‘‘The Settlement of Blacks in South Florida,’’ in T. D. Boswell, ed., South Florida: The Winds of Change, 121 (prepared for the Annual Conference of the AAG, Miami, April 1991). 5. Dana A. Dorsey came to Miami from Georgia to work as a carpenter. He ended up a very successful developer and realtor. Dorsey was the first owner of the { 221 } southern tip of Miami Beach that would later become Fisher Island, and presentday Dorsey Park was given by him and his wife to the city of Miami in 1917 to be used as a green space for black people in the segregationist times. 6. J. C. Mills, Highlights of Greater Miami (Miami Shores, Fla.: Mills Publications, 1952), 3. 7. J. Sewell, John Sewell’s Memoirs and History of Miami, Florida (1933); B. Reilly, Tropical Surge: A History of Ambition and Disaster on the Florida Shore (Sarasota : Pineapple Press, 2005). 8. The assassination was attempted by Guiseppe Zangara, an Italian self-declared anarchist who had arrived in Miami only a few months earlier. He later claimed to have protested the fate of poor working-class people in America (this was at the time of the Great Depression). All of the bullets missed Roosevelt but a few bystanders were wounded. The visiting mayor of Chicago died of his injuries a few days later. 9. M. Stoneman Douglas, Everglades: The River of Grass (New York: Rinehart, 1947). 10. Broward followed in the footsteps of his predecessor William S. Jennings, who had avowed similar goals. 11. W. W. Jenna, Metropolitan Miami: A Demographic Overview (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1972), 24. 12. At the federal level and in local circles, there were some signs of growing awareness of the environmental impact on the Everglades, but it was not consequential in a political sense. Frank Stoneman (the father of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas), who came to Miami in 1903 to start the Miami Evening Record (which would become the Miami Herald in 1910), was known for his critical stance against the drainage projects. 13. H. Muir, Miami, USA, expanded ed. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), 120. 14. P. George, ‘‘Miami: One-Hundred Years of History,’’ South Florida History 24 (1996). 15. T. D. Allman, Miami, City of the Future (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987), 190. Chapter 2 1. T. H. Weigall, Boom in Paradise (New York: A. H. King, 1932). { 222 } n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 6 – 2 3 2. D. MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 3. G. Bush, ‘‘Playground USA: Miami and the Promotion of Spectacle,’’ Pacific Historical Review 68 (1999): 153–72. 4. Ibid., 156. 5. J. C. Mills, Highlights of Greater Miami (Miami Shores, Fla.: Mills Publications, 1952), 66–67. 6. T. D. Allman, Miami, City of the Future (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987), 192. 7. G. E. Merrick, Planning the Greater Miami of Tomorrow (Miami: Miami Realty Board, 1937), 20. Also see J. F...