Editing Kendall, Florida (section)

==History==
Much of what is now Kendall was purchased from the State of Florida in 1883 by the Florida Land and Mortgage Company. It was named for Henry John Broughton Kendall, a [[Board of directors|director]] of the company, who moved to the area in the 1900s to manage the company's land. As the land was not open to [[Homestead Act|homesteading]], development was slow well into the 20th century. A post office opened in 1914, and the first school opened in 1929. After the end of the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s|land boom]] in 1926, some residents left. Two [[Seminole]] camps were in the Kendall area, and Seminoles continued to live there into the 1940s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Jean |date=1985 |title=Villages of South Dade|location=St. Petersburg, Fla |publisher=B. Kennedy |oclc=18906834 |lccn=88132899 |pages=39–49}}</ref>

Prior to the 1950s, the term "Kendall" was used to describe a region centered around [[U.S. Route 1]], bounded by [[Snapper Creek]] to the north, the [[Everglades]] to the west, [[Old Cutler Road]] to the east, and the former community of Rockdale to the south. This area was largely uninhabited, generally consisting of [[South Florida rocklands|pine rockland]] interspersed with fields and groves. As the region experienced rapid development in the 1950s, the moniker "Kendall" came to refer to the various communities built in the vicinity of present-day  [[Pinecrest, Florida|Pinecrest]] and the eastern half of the current Kendall CDP. When growth shifted west in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the usage of the term steadily shifted west concurrently, and today it is most often applied to the area more formally known as [[West Kendall, Florida|West Kendall]]. Prior to incorporation in 1996, the Village of Pinecrest was still included in the official boundaries of Kendall CDP.

[[File:Dadeland Mobile Home Park after Andrew - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|left|Dadeland Mobile Home Park neighborhood near Kendall destroyed by [[Hurricane Andrew]] in 1992.]]
In August 1992, Kendall and the surrounding South Dade area were severely damaged by [[Hurricane Andrew]]. Many of the homes and businesses in the area were destroyed. In the subsequent years, the area was slowly rebuilt.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130128220819/http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/17/2956273/photo-gallery-08-17-141113.html]<br />- {{cite web |title=Remembering the fury of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/hurricane-andrew/article1942070.html |website=miamiherald}}</ref>