Timeline of Hialeah, Florida explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hialeah, Florida, USA.

20th century

• 1921 - Hialeah founded with the first plan drawn up and the town named.
• 1924
  • Miami-Hialeah Florida East Coast Railway line and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge built.
  • Hialeah Women's Club opens town library.
• 1925
  • Hialeah incorporated.
  • Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.^[1]
  • Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.^[2]
• 1926
  • Hurricane.
  • Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
• 1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift Bridge opens.
• 1944 - Home News begins publication.^[3]
• 1948 - Town of Hialeah Gardens incorporated near Hialeah.
• 1958 - City of Hialeah Public Library building opens.
• 1961 - M.A. Milam Elementary School established.
• 1969 - El Sol de Hialeah newspaper begins publication.
• 1970 - El Día newspaper begins publication.
• 1971 - Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
• 1973
  • KC and the Sunshine Band (musical group) formed.^[4]
  • TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema^[5] in business.
• 1974 - Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye established.
• 1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.^[6]
• 1980
  • Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
  • Apollo North cinema in business.
• 1981 - Raúl L. Martínez becomes mayor.
• 1982 - El Hispano newspaper begins publication.
• 1985
  • Hialeah station (Metrorail) and Okeechobee station (Metrorail) open.
  • El Condado News begins publication.
• 1987 - Mi Casa newspaper begins publication.
  • Christian Gomez is born.
• 1989
  • Tri-Rail commuter rail Miami Airport station opens.
  • Carmike cinema in business.
• 1990
  • April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.
  • Population: 188,004.
• 1993
  • U.S. Supreme Court decides animal sacrifice-related Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah in favor of freedom of religion (over city public health regulation).
  • Carrie P. Meek becomes U.S. representative for 27th congressional district.^[7]
• 1999
  • Telemundo television headquarters relocated to Hialeah.
  • City website online (approximate date).^{[8] [9]}
• 2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.

21st century

• 2005 - Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
• 2008 - Westland Hialeah High School and City of Hialeah Educational Academy open.
• 2010 - Population: 224,669.^[10]
• 2011
  • May: Carlos Hernández becomes acting mayor.
  • November: Hialeah mayoral election, 2011 held.
• 2013
  • January: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes U.S. representative for Florida's newly created 27th congressional district.^[11]
  • July: Shooting at Todel Apartments.
• 2014 - Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.
• 2015
  • Miami Watersports Complex opens.
  • Population: 237,082 (estimate).^[12]
• 2021: Shooting.

See also

• Hialeah history
• List of mayors of Hialeah, Florida
• Timelines of other cities in the South Florida area of Florida: Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, Miami Beach, West Palm Beach

Bibliography

• Book: Federal Writers’ Project . Planning Your Vacation in Florida Miami and Dade County . . Northport, NY . Bacon, Percy & Daggett . 1941 . Chronology . 9780404579074 . https://archive.org/stream/planningyourvac00writrich#page/180/mode/2up . .
• Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Fight of 1937 . Peter D. Klingman . Tequesta . 34 . 0363-3705 . Historical Association of Southern Florida . Florida International University . 1974 .
• Book: Paul T. Hellmann. Historical Gazetteer of the United States. 2006. Routledge. 1-135-94859-3. Florida: Hialeah. https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA194. .
• Book: Seth H. Bramson . The Curtiss-Bright Cities: Hialeah, Miami Springs & Opa Locka. 2008. History Press . Charleston, SC . 978-1-59629-386-1. .

External links

• Web site: Cuban Heritage Collection, Digital Collections . University of Miami .
• Web site: (Hialeah) . Florida Memory . Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services .
• Items related to Hialeah, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Notes and References

1. Web site: History Of Hialeah . June 10, 2016 . City of Hialeah .
2. Web site: Hialeah History Collection . Hialeah Public Libraries . City of Hialeah . June 10, 2016 .
3. Web site: US Newspaper Directory . Washington DC . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . June 10, 2016 .
4. Book: James Stuart Olson. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s. registration. 1999. Greenwood . USA . 978-0-313-30543-6.
5. Web site: Movie Theaters in Hialeah, FL . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . June 10, 2016 .
6. Web site: Hialeah, Florida . . New York . Nonprofit Explorer . 9 May 2013 . Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei . June 10, 2016 .
7. Book: Official Congressional Directory . Official Congressional Directory . Washington DC . Government Printing Office . 1993–1994 . Florida . 1991/1992- : S. Pub. . 2027/uc1.l0072691827?urlappend=%3Bseq=107 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.l0072691827?urlappend=%3Bseq=107 . HathiTrust .
8. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20000302153616/http://www.ci.hialeah.fl.us/ . dead . City of Hialeah, Florida Official Web Site . March 2, 2000 . .
9. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20000824034356/http://officialcitysites.org/Florida/Cities/H/ . United States of America: Florida . dead . August 24, 2000 . Official City Sites . Kevin Hyde . Tamie Hyde . Utah . 40169021 .
10. Web site: Hialeah city, Florida . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau . June 10, 2016 .
11. Web site: Members of Congress . . Civic Impulse, LLC . Washington DC . June 10, 2016 .
12. Web site: Hialeah, FL . Censusreporter.org . Joe Germuska . USA . May 3, 2017 .