A picture of Hallandale Beach at
sunset.
Hallandale Beach is a city in Broward
County, Florida,
United
States. The city is named after Luther Halland, a worker
for Henry Flagler's Florida
East Coast Railroad. The population was 37,282 at the 2000
census. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S.
Census Bureau is 36,349.[1]
The city is best known as the home of the Gulfstream
Park horse
racing track, which hosts the Florida
Derby. It also has a sizable financial district, with offices
for a number of banks and brokerage houses. Sometimes referred
to in jest as the "southernmost Canadian city," Hallandale Beach
has been a popular vacation destination for decades, and most
of the tourists come from Quebec
and the Northeastern
United States. Throughout the decades, a significant number
of these tourists eventually retire to the area, and become
residents of Hallandale Beach.
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Geography
Hallandale Beach is located at 
25°59′12″N,
80°8′46″W
(25.986719, -80.146024)GR1.
According to the United
States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.8
km²
(4.6 mi²).
10.9 km² (4.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of
it (7.47%) is water.
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Demographics
As of the censusGR2
of 2000, there were 44,282 people, 18,051 households, and 8,700
families residing in the city. The population
density was 3,144.0/km² (8,143.1/mi²). There were 25,022
housing units at an average density of 2,294.8/km² (5,943.5/mi²).
The racial makeup of the city was 77.25% White,
16.02% African
American, 0.23% Native
American, 1.00% Asian,
0.04% Pacific
Islander, 2.79% from other
races, and 2.66% from two or more races. Hispanic
or Latino
of any race were 18.81% of the population.
There were 18,051 households out of which 12.5% had children
under the age of 18 living with them, 35.8% were married
couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with
no husband present, and 51.8% were non-families. 45.2% of all
households were made up of individuals and 25.8% had someone
living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household
size was 1.88 and the average family size was 2.60.
In the city the population was spread out with 13.2% under
the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 22.8%
from 45 to 64, and 35.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median age was 53 years. For every 100 females there were
85.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were
82.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $28,266,
and the median income for a family was $37,171. Males had a
median income of $31,287 versus $24,882 for females. The per
capita income for the city was $22,464. About 13.1% of families
and 16.8% of the population were below the poverty
line, including 26.4% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of
those age 65 or over.
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Languages
Aside from English
spoken as a first
language by 59.66% and Spanish
at 19.50%, as of the year 2000, the "southernmost Canadian city"
also had French
spoken by 5.23% of the population, with the majority being French
Canadians. Other languages included were Romanian
at 2.71%, Italian
at 1.96%, French
Creole at 1.80%, Yiddish
1.70%, Russian
1.32%, German
1.27%, Hungarian
at 1.17%, Polish
comprised at 0.85%, Hebrew
at 0.77%, and Portuguese,
which made up 0.72% of all residents.[2]
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History
The Hallandale Beach website states:
The area that is now known as Hallandale Beach was not even
settled until the late 1800s, when Henry
Morrison Flagler expanded the Florida
East Coast Railway to Palm
Beach in 1895. Before then, there wasn't much to Hallandale
Beach except swamp and a gray, sandy soil called marl. The
Seminole
Indians would hunt in the area and gather cootie root,
which was used to produce starchy dough. Flagler recruited
Luther Halland, son of a Swedish
minister and brother-in-law to one of Flagler's agents, to
start a Swedish settlement south of the Danish
settlement of Dania.
With the assistance of an immigrant named Olaf Zetterlund,
Halland began promoting the frost-free subtropical
climate and cheap land of Halland (later to be named Hallandale).
Halland set up a small trading post in the new community and
became its first postmaster. Settlement was slow, with only
a dozen families in town by 1900 - seven Swedish,
three English,
and two black.
The first school was built in 1904 and had only ten students.
The first church, Bethlehem Lutheran,
was established in 1906. Originally, Hallandale was a farming
community, with farmers using the beach only for recreation.
Hallandale officially became a town on May 14, 1927. By that
time, there were 1,500 residents, street lights, and electricity
in the community. In 1947, Hallandale was reincorporated as
a city, and was allowed to annex land to the east. In August
of 1999, the city officially changed its name to Hallandale
Beach.[3]
Hallandale Beach, FL is served by the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
market, for local radio and Television. Hallandale Beach has
its own newspaper, The Hallandale Digest, which is published
monthly and is part of Miami's
Community Newspapers, the "Voice of the Community".
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References
- ^ http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2004-04-12.xls
- ^ http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&state_id=12&county_id=&mode=place&zip=&place_id=28450&cty_id=&ll=&a=&ea=&order=r
- ^ http://www.ci.hallandale.fl.us/history/history.html
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External links
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