Other settlements within Miami's city limits were Lemon City (now Little Haiti) and Coconut Grove Settlements outside the city limits were Biscayne in present-day Miami Shores and Cutler in present-day Palmetto Bay Many of the settlers were homesteaders attracted to the area by offers of 160 acres (0.6 km2) of free land by the United States federal government, Marlins Park home of the Miami Marlins University Park. SR 924 In 1817 Andrew Jackson invaded Florida to hasten its annexation to the United States in what became known as the First Seminole War After Florida became a U.S territory in 1821 conflicts between settlers and the Seminole increased as the former tried to acquire lands the Second Seminole War lasted from 1835 to 1842 and afterward the US forcibly removed about 3,000 Seminole and 800 Black Seminole to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi River Many others died in the war Conflict broke out again in the Third Seminole War from 1855 to 1859 when a few hundred Seminole fought off US forces from the swamps of the Everglades the US finally decided to leave them alone as they could not dislodge them even after this protracted and expensive warfare.
Temple Israel of Greater Miami (70) 2.56 3.1 Population Downtown skyline circa 1930s with the Florida East Coast Railway passenger train station and the Dade County Courthouse in the foreground. !
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