Editing Richmond West, Florida (section)

==History==
Richmond West has its origins as an early 1900s settlement named '''Eureka'''. In 1907, the one-room Eureka Schoolhouse was built at the corner of S.W. 147th Avenue (Naranja Road) and S.W. 184th Street (Eureka Drive).<ref name="update">{{cite journal |last1=Dieterich |first1=Emily Perry |title=Silver Palm: First School in South Dade |journal=Update |date=February 1987 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=10 |url=http://www.historymiami.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/update-v14-n1.pdf |publisher=The Historical Association of South Florida}}</ref> It closed in 1916 when it and six other area [[one-room school]]houses were consolidated into the [[Redland Farm Life School]] four miles to the south.<ref name="update" /> In 1927, the [[Seaboard Air Line Railroad|Seaboard Air Line Railway]] arrived, building a depot in the settlement, by then known as Richmond. Although the depot has long since been demolished, the railroad line, now owned by Seaboard's successor [[CSX]], remains.

The [[1945 Homestead hurricane]] caused an estimated $50,000,000-worth of damage, impacting the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV74UDgZh8M&t=1m57s |title=Hurricane Sweeps US East Coast |publisher=United Newsreel Corporation |website=[[YouTube]] |date=1945}}</ref> Nearly half of the financial loss happened at the neighboring [[Naval Air Station Richmond|Richmond]] [[Naval Air Station]], where winds ignited a fire at three hangars, destroying 25&nbsp;blimps, 366&nbsp;planes and 150&nbsp;automobiles.

[[File:Dadeland Mobile Home Park after Andrew - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Dadeland Mobile Home Park in Richmond West destroyed by [[Hurricane Andrew]] in 1992]]

The area remained mostly agricultural until the mid-1980s when several sub-developments and the Dadeland Mobile Home Park were built south of S.W. 152nd Street (Coral Reef Drive). In August 1992, [[Hurricane Andrew]] destroyed the mobile home park and devastated the surrounding area. Many of the homes and businesses in the area were completely destroyed. In subsequent years, the area was gradually rebuilt, and development proceeded southward to the community's southern border at Eureka Drive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-21 |title=Remembering the fury of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida - Hurricane Andrew - MiamiHerald.com |website=[[Miami Herald]] |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/18/2958131/the-fury-of-andrew.html |access-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055152/http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/18/2958131/the-fury-of-andrew.html |archive-date=September 21, 2013 }} </ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Destruction in the wake of Hurricane Andrew |work=[[Miami Herald]] |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/17/2956273/photo-gallery-08-17-141113.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128220819/http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/17/2956273/photo-gallery-08-17-141113.html |archive-date=2013-01-28}}</ref>