Hallandale Beach, Florida
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Sunset at Hallandale Beach
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| Motto: "Progress. Innovation. Opportunity. City of Choice." | |
 Location of Hallandale Beach, in Broward County, Florida |
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| Coordinates: 25°59′12″N 80°8′46″W / 25.98667°N 80.14611°WCoordinates: 25°59′12″N 80°8′46″W / 25.98667°N 80.14611°W | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |
 Florida
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| County |
 Broward
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| Settled (Halland Settlement) | Circa 1895 |
| Incorporated (Town of Hallandale) | May 11, 1927 |
| Incorporated (City of Hallandale) | August 27, 1947 |
| Incorporated (City of Hallandale Beach) | August 27, 1999 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Commission-Manager |
| • Mayor | Joy Cooper (D) |
| • Vice Mayor | William "Bill" Julian |
| • Commissioners | Anthony Sanders, Keith London, and Michele Lazarow |
| • City Manager | Renee C. Miller |
| • City Clerk | Mario Bataille |
| Area | |
| • City | 4.55 sq mi (11.8 km2) |
| • Land | 4.21 sq mi (10.9 km2) |
| • Water | .34 sq mi (0.9 km2) 7.47% |
| Elevation | 6 ft (2 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 37,113 |
| • Density | 8,200/sq mi (3,100/km2) |
| • Metro | 5,564,635 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 33009 |
| Area code(s) | 754, 954 |
| FIPS code | 12-28452 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0283628 |
| Website | http://www.hallandalebeach.org/ |
Hallandale Beach (formerly known simply as Hallandale) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city is named after Luther Halland, the son of a Swedish worker for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,113.
The city is known as the home of Gulfstream Park (horse racing and casino) and Mardi Gras Casino, a greyhound racing track which hosts the World Classic. It also has a sizable financial district, with offices for a number of banks and brokerage houses. Due to the large number of tourists who eventually retire in the city, Hallandale Beach has one of the fastest-growing populations in Broward County and in Metro Miami.
Hallandale Beach, like most of Broward County, had no permanent European-descended population until the end of the 19th century. Seminole Indians, in settlements that lay inland of the Atlantic shore, hunted in the area and gathered coontie roots to produce arrowroot starch.
Railroad magnate Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railway, recruited Luther Halland, a brother-in-law of Flagler's agents, to found a settlement south of the community of Dania. Halland and Swedish immigrant Olaf Zetterlund touted the frost-free climate and cheap land of the settlement (then named Halland, later changed to Hallandale). Halland constructed a small trading post and became the first postmaster of the small community.
By 1900, the community had slowly grown to a dozen families—seven of Swedish, three of English, and two of African descent. In 1904 the first school was built, and the first church followed two years later. Hallandale was primarily a farming community; the beach was undeveloped and used by the residents only for recreational purposes.
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