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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County,_Florida#History
Although the area has been settled since about 1400 B.C., Broward County was founded on April 30, 1915.[5] It was intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to name it in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909.[6] Throughout his term as governor, Broward championed Everglades drainage and was remembered for his campaign to turn the Everglades into “useful land”. This opened up much of today's urban Broward County for development, first as agricultural land and later as residential. A year before Broward became governor, Dania became the first incorporated community of what is now Broward County, followed by Pompano in 1908, and Fort Lauderdale in 1911.
In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County.[5] Broward County began a huge development boom after its incorporation, with the first "tourist hotel", in Fort Lauderdale, opening in 1919. A year later, developers began dredging wetlands in the county to create island communities.[5] By 1925, the boom was considered to have reached its peak, but a 1926 hurricane caused economic depression in the county.[5] The county saw another population and development boom post-World War II when the transformation from agricultural to urbanized residential area began, and another boom between the 1950s and the late 1960s. The effects of a national recession hit the county in 1974 and the population growth finally slowed. The structure of county government was signed into law in 1975 with the passage of the Broward County charter.[5] In 1977 a Land Use Plan was passed that was a major step in limiting urban sprawl.
COUNTY NAMED AFTER NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BROWARD