Tucked away in Everglades National Park is a decommissioned Nike Missile Base, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers and opened in 1964 as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Four such sites surrounded Miami as protection. My city of Chicago (and others as well) also had a number of Nike Missile Bases back in the 1960s and '70s for protection against Russian attack.
Rangers at Everglades offer free tours of the site and provide detailed info regarding its history. Here's a video of that tour...
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