Aventura Mall, Tourism makes up one of the largest sectors of the state economy with nearly 1.4 million people employed in the tourism industry in 2016 (a record for the state surpassing the 1.2 million employment from 2015), 2010 5,564,635 11.1% The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300. . . .
; South Beach Gesu Church built in 1896 is the oldest Catholic church in Miami and one of many central churches and synagogues in Downtown.
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