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building wonderful 100-foot boulevards; the swift completion of your bathing pool and sunken gardens; beautiful, distinctive Spanish boulevards; business blocks being built; industrial projects taking form—in short, the building of a city complete in itself."
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1345:The Hammocks
1275:Leisure City
1270:Kendall West
1255:Ives Estates
1215:Country Walk
1210:Country Club
1172:Palmetto Bay
1167:Miami Shores
1162:Key Biscayne
1157:Indian Creek
1109:Golden Beach
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1425:Ponce-Davis
1387:communities
1365:Westchester
1350:Three Lakes
1200:Brownsville
1142:Bal Harbour
1119:Miami Lakes
1055:South Miami
1040:North Miami
1020:Miami Beach
955:County seat
845:February 3,
815:February 8,
731:February 3,
703:February 3,
591:February 3,
532:February 3,
452:Present day
418: /
351:cornerstone
282:Development
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1525:Categories
1451:Ghost town
1405:High Pines
1395:Coopertown
1104:Cutler Bay
1070:West Miami
1065:Sweetwater
461:References
406:80°27′14″W
403:25°34′01″N
311:Miami News
220:Area codes
149:Miami-Dade
1487:Footnotes
1400:Frog City
1310:Princeton
1230:Gladeview
1177:Pinecrest
1152:El Portal
1050:Opa-locka
1010:Homestead
392:Geography
334:Homestead
259:Opa-locka
208:ZIP codes
174:Time zone
165:Elevation
1441:West End
1410:Islandia
1370:Westview
1305:Pinewood
1134:Villages
1124:Surfside
980:Aventura
491:June 10,
224:305, 786
1459:Perrine
1420:Redland
1335:Tamiami
1280:Naranja
1265:Kendall
1000:Hialeah
869:Sources
277:History
251:Redland
243:Florida
137:Florida
122:Country
1330:Sunset
1245:Goulds
1114:Medley
972:Cities
362:Demise
265:, and
233:is an
144:County
1091:Towns
1015:Miami
990:Doral
962:Miami
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247:Miami
213:33187
202:(EDT)
200:UTC-4
179:UTC-5
159:Miami
132:State
1285:Ojus
1192:CDPs
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