Fort Lauderdale was not yet a town, and what would become Miami barely existed, but Mary Brickell saw the potential for her own vast landholdings and the rest of the…
Fort Lauderdale wasn’t always a big city; in earlier times, we offered simpler delights. If there were a competition for “Latest-Blooming Metropolis in the World,” Fort Lauderdale would certainly be…
The place that is now our international airport was put to a different use in World War II. In the 1920s, Fort Lauderdale swelled from a population of 2,300 to…
Some wrongs can never be made right. But on a street in Fort Lauderdale, a name is remembered. This February, a crowd gathered near Davie Boulevard and SW 31st Street.…
Red Crise’s Hacienda Village sounds like something out of a Hiaasen novel. It wasn’t. Slow Down. Pull Over. You’re in Hacienda Village. A deliciously fitting headline told the story for…
The Tequestas, Southeast Florida’s first residents, were great fishermen who built a complex society – and got out of town every summer. It’s march, that time when all the snowbirds…
William Lauderdale beat the British, battled the Red-Stick Creeks and, in his final act, brought a battalion from the Smokies into the Southeast Florida swamps. William Lauderdale gave our city…
Today it’s part of a family-friendly state park, but Whiskey Creek earned its name through a colorful history. In the 1920s, distilleries in England couldn’t believe their luck. Prohibition was…
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was a gunrunner, sheriff, governor, and a man who held views both progressive and vile. We look at the county’s colorful namesake. In the 1880s, he ran…
Buy property in the Everglades? In the early 20th century, many Northerners thought that sounded great. One of my first memories of Florida was formed decades ago on a road…