Editing North Miami, Florida (section)

===Birth of North Miami===
Thirty-eight out of the forty-seven registered voters, at the encouragement of developers E.C. Harner, Earl Irons, and Arthur Griffing, showed up and voted to incorporate into a town on February 5, 1926. North Miami, between 1926 and 1931, was named "Town of Miami Shores", partially because its early eastern boundary was the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The Town limits were: bounded on the south by [[Miami, Florida|Miami]] and [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]], on the east by the [[Atlantic Ocean]], on the west by 17th Avenue, and on the north by a line which approximates Golden Glades Drive or 166th Street. Incorporation moved costs from developers to residents and lot purchasers. Late in 1926, a bond issue of $287,000 was passed to build streets, sidewalks, a town hall, a water system, and fire protection.

The devastating [[1926 Miami Hurricane|September 1926 hurricane]] burst the real estate land speculation. The local community recovered from the damage, but lot sales came to a stop, and the northern tourist's names showed up in great numbers on the delinquent tax list. Some money from the bond issue was used to build a Spanish-Mediterranean style city hall building at N.E. 8th Avenue and 125th Street in 1928. The City Hall also housed the police and fire departments. In the 1930s a new water plant and gravity tank were installed behind City Hall. The first newspaper, ''The Miami Shores Bulletin'', was published in 1927–1928 and chronicled the events of the times. The historic [[W. J. Bryan Elementary School|William Jennings Bryan school]] was constructed in 1928 on the same spot where the Arch Creek Elementary School had burned down the year before.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.northmiamifl.gov/community/history/index.html|title=City of North Miami official site - History Page 1|access-date=2007-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625162226/http://www.northmiamifl.gov/community/history/index.html|archive-date=2007-06-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>