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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FTLAUD_060119_033.JPG: All around Fort Lauderdale were signs of the impact of Hurricane Wilma
2. FTLAUD_060119_053.JPG: Bicentennial Liberty Oak Tree. In 1976, in commemoration of our Nation's 200th Anniversary, the Bicentennial Oak Tree was reloaded to this Riverwalk site. This tree is representative of the Liberty Trees found in many Colonial cities prior to the Revolution. The most well known of these trees was in Boston under whose branches the Sons of Liberty and other Patriots gathered in planning our independence from Great Britain. In honor of the victims and heroes of the September 11, 2001 Attack on America,The City of Fort Lauderdale and the Downtown Development Authority had rededicated and added the name Liberty to this tree. Our belief in Liberty for All unites us as a Nation dedicated to upholding and defending our precious American Values and Principles. Dedicated September 11, 2002.
3. FTLAUD_060119_116.JPG: H. Wayne Huizenga, Spirit of Fort Lauderdale Fountain. Honoring a man of rare entrepreneurial spirit and enduring dedication to our community. Dedicated June, 2001. -- Who is Huizenga? Most people know him as the head of Blockbuster Inc, the nation's largest video rental company with 7,700 stores in the United States and 25 other countries. He has a net worth of 1.8 billion, ranking him 150th on Fortune Magazine's Wealthiest Americans list. He started as owner of the company Waste Management Inc., a waste disposal firm. It began with a single garbage truck only to become the largest waste disposal company in the United States. He is the owner of the NFL Miami Dolphins, the NHL Florida Panthers and the Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida. Formerly, he was also a majority owner of Major League Baseball's Florida Marlin's. He also owns Auto Nation.
4. FTLAUD_060119_127.JPG: While I was in Fort Lauderdale, I saw the King Tut exhibit. I can't say I was all that impressed by it. The real gems of the collection haven't left Egypt since the big tour 30 years before. These were definitely also-rans. The picture they show, which you think is one of the four body coffins he was buried in, is actually a doll-sized coffin that was used to hold his mummified liver.
5. FTLAUD_060119_207.JPG: The building in the foreground is the two-story Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, where the King Tut exhibit had been. This picture is taken from the city parking lot.
Wikipedia Description: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. According to 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city had a population of 183,606. It is the county seat of Broward County, and a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to over 5,413,212 people.

The city is a popular tourist destination, with 10.35 million visitors in 2006. The city is a major yachting center, with 42,000 resident yachts and 100 marinas and boatyards. Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs host over 4100 restaurants and 120 nightclubs.

Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend, in what is now known as the Sailboat Bend neighborhood, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, who was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort.

History:

The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than a thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases to which the native populations possessed no resistance, such as smallpox. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, England, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.

The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West. The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.

Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators, and a Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.

After the war ended, service members returned to the area, spurring an enormous population explosion which dwarfed the 1920s boom. The 1960 Census counted 83,648 people in the city, about 230% of the 1950 figure. A 1967 report estimated that the city was approximately 85% developed, and the 1970 population figure was 139,590. After 1970, as Fort Lauderdale became essentially built out, growth in the area shifted to suburbs to the west. As cities such as Coral Springs, Miramar, and Pembroke Pines experienced explosive growth, Fort Lauderdale's population stagnated, and the city actually shrank by almost 4,000 people between 1980, when the city had 153,279 people, and 1990, when the population was 149,377. A slight rebound brought the population back up to 152,397 at the 2000 census. Since 2000, Fort Lauderdale has gained slightly over 18,000 residents through annexation of seven neighborhoods in unincorporated Broward County. Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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