Miami History of Miami Museum
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The city of Miami was incorporated in 1896 with the extension of the Florida Railroad south, although Native Americans had inhabited the area for hundreds of years prior to this.
Miami was a tourist Mecca since its early days, although the fact that during the 1920s, when the rest of the country had prohibition, while Miami kept the booze flowing did nothing to hurt visitor numbers, and it was through this period, and into the 1930s when much of the art deco area on Miami Beach was constructed.
The 1950s saw Cubans arrive by the creaking boatload, after the Castro Regime took power, and now they make up a significant part of the population.
The 1980s was the peak of the peaks for the city, when drug money flowing in and the establishment of Don Johnson as a sex symbol as Crockett in the popular sit-com Miami Vice made the city a glamorous and fabulous place to be.
Through the nineties, prominent anti-crime programmes cleaned up the tarnished image of the city, making it a safer and more pleasant place to visit.
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