Fort Lauderdale
— — the city the inland water never quite left.
Not only on a wall.
“The city sits on the southeast Florida coast where the New River meets the Atlantic. More than 165 miles of inland waterway run between the houses, which is why people call it the Venice of America. Las Olas Boulevard threads east toward the beach in low pastel storefronts. The drawbridges open on schedule for sailboats heading out through Port Everglades to the open ocean.
Fort Lauderdale, on ceramic.
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Fort Lauderdale lies on Florida's southeast coast about 25 miles north of Miami and 40 miles south of West Palm Beach, in Broward County. The city is built on a low coastal plain where the New River system meets the Atlantic, with elevation barely above sea level. It takes its name from a series of forts built during the Second Seminole War in 1838, the last of them commanded by Major William Lauderdale of the Tennessee Volunteers. The modern city was incorporated in 1911 and now holds around 184,000 people.
More than 165 miles of canals, rivers, and inlets thread through the city, which earned it the nickname Venice of America in the early twentieth century. The New River runs east from the Everglades through downtown and out through Port Everglades, one of the three busiest cruise ports in the world. Drawbridges along Las Olas and Andrews Avenue open on a fixed schedule for sailboat traffic. The Intracoastal Waterway runs parallel to the beach, with the barrier island carrying low-rise hotels and the long public shoreline of Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Fort Lauderdale Beach runs roughly seven miles along the Atlantic, edged by the low brick wall along A1A that the city restored in the 1990s after a long period of spring-break crowds. Las Olas Boulevard is the main east-west street through downtown, lined with galleries, restaurants, and the Stranahan House, the oldest surviving structure in the city, completed in 1901. Water taxis run between the riverside districts and the beach. Winter highs sit in the mid-70s Fahrenheit; the wet season runs from June to October.