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Hialeah's name comes from the Muskogee words 'Haiyakpo' (prairie) and 'hili' (pretty) - 'pretty prairie' - for the high grassland the city occupies between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades.

The city was developed in 1921 by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright on drained ranch land northwest of Miami.

Hialeah was incorporated on September 10, 1925, with a population of only about 1,500 people.

Hialeah Park Race Track opened for thoroughbred racing in January 1925, was rebuilt in Mediterranean Revival splendor under Joseph E. Widener, and reopened in 1932; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Widener imported pink flamingos from Cuba in 1934 to stock the track's infield lake; the flock became an official Audubon bird sanctuary and famously appeared in the opening credits of Miami Vice.

Hialeah Park is credited with introducing America's first turf (grass) racing course, one of several firsts in American horse racing pioneered at the track.

Aviator Amelia Earhart began her ill-fated final round-the-world flight from Hialeah, and the city later named one of its largest parks, Amelia Earhart Park, in her honor.

After 1959, Cuban exiles fleeing Castro's revolution transformed elite-minded Hialeah into a working-class city, a character it keeps today.

Hialeah has the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban-American residents of any city in the United States, and at 94% in 2020 its Hispanic share was the second-highest in the contiguous United States.

Spanish is the language of everyday life in Hialeah - over nine in ten residents speak Spanish at home, among the highest rates of any American city.