Timeline of Hialeah, Florida

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

20th century

• 1921 - Hialeah founded.[1]
• 1924
  • Miami-Hialeah Florida East Coast Railway line[2] and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge[3] built.
  • Hialeah Women's Club opens town library.
• 1925
  • Hialeah incorporated.[4]
  • Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.[5]
  • Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.[6]
• 1926
  • Hurricane.[7]
  • Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
• 1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift Bridge opens.[3]
• 1944 - Home News begins publication.[8]
• 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.[8]
• 1970 - El Día newspaper begins publication.[8]
• 1971 - Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
• 1973
  • KC and the Sunshine Band (musical group) formed.[9]
  • TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema[10] in business.
• 1974 - Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye established.
• 1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.[11]
• 1980
  • Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
  • Apollo North cinema in business.[10]
• 1981 - Raúl L. Martínez becomes mayor.
• 1982 - El Hispano newspaper begins publication.[8]
• 1985
  • Hialeah station (Metrorail) and Okeechobee station (Metrorail) open.
  • El Condado News begins publication.[8]
• 1987 - Mi Casa newspaper begins publication.[8]
  • Christian Gomez is born.
• 1989
  • Tri-Rail commuter rail Miami Airport station opens.
  • Carmike cinema in business.[10]
• 1990
  • April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.[12][13]
  • Population: 188,004.[14]
• 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).[15]
  • Carrie P. Meek becomes U.S. representative for 27th congressional district.[16]
• 1999
  • Telemundo television headquarters relocated to Hialeah.
  • City website online (approximate date).[17][18]
• 2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.[5]

21st century

• 2005 - Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
• 2008 - Westland Hialeah High School and City of Hialeah Educational Academy[11] open.
• 2010 - Population: 224,669.[19][20]
• 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.[21]
  • July 26–27: Shooting at Todel Apartments.
• 2014 - Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.[22]
• 2015
  • Miami Watersports Complex opens.[23]
  • Population: 237,082 (estimate).[24]

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

References

1. Federal Writers’ Project 1941, p. 180.
2. Bramson 2008.
3. Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012
4. Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-28
5. "History Of Hialeah". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
6. Hialeah Public Libraries. "Hialeah History Collection". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
7. Hellmann 2006.
8. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
9. James Stuart Olson, ed. (1999). Historical Dictionary of the 1970s. USA: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30543-6.
10. "Movie Theaters in Hialeah, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
11. Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Hialeah, Florida". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
12. "Mayor and a Councilman Are Indicted in Hialeah", New York Times, April 4, 1990
13. "Hialeah Mayor Guilty Of Selling His Influence", New York Times, March 27, 1991
14. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
15. M.F. Mikula; et al., eds. (1999), Great American Court Cases, Gale
16. "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993–1994 – via HathiTrust.
17. "City of Hialeah, Florida Official Web Site". Archived from the original on March 2, 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
18. Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Florida". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.
19. "Hialeah city, Florida". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
20. Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Hialeah", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
21. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
22. "ALDI opening second Hialeah store on July 10", Miami Herald, July 2, 2014
23. "New watersports complex opens in Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah", Miami Herald, March 28, 2015
24. Joe Germuska (ed.). "Hialeah, FL". Censusreporter.org. USA. Retrieved May 3, 2017.

Bibliography

• Federal Writers’ Project (1941). "Chronology". Planning Your Vacation in Florida Miami and Dade County. American Guide Series. Northport, NY: Bacon, Percy & Daggett.
• Peter D. Klingman (1974). "Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Fight of 1937" (PDF). Tequesta. Historical Association of Southern Florida. 34. ISSN 0363-3705 – via Florida International University.
• Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Florida: Hialeah". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
• Seth H. Bramson (2008). The Curtiss-Bright Cities: Hialeah, Miami Springs & Opa Locka. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-386-1.

External links

• "Cuban Heritage Collection, Digital Collections". University of Miami.
• "(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)