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The Florida East Coast Railway reached Boca Raton in 1895, the same year that railroad agent and surveyor Thomas Rickards became the first white settler in Boca Raton. Another significant event in 1895 was the completion of the first railroad across Lake Worth, linking Palm Beach and West Palm Beach to allow guests at Flagler's hotels direct ...
The first people arrived in Florida before the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. Human remains and/or artifacts have been found in association with the remains of Pleistocene animals at a number of Florida locations. A carved bone depicting a mammoth found near the site of Vero man has been dated to 13,000 to 20,000 years ago.
As a result, many of the settlers returned to Japan or moved elsewhere in the United States. The remnants of the colony were dispossessed after the entry of the United States into World War II, when their land was purchased to create a U.S. Army Air Corps training base (now the site of Florida Atlantic University and the Boca Raton Airport). [2]
Fort Myers Beach: 41: Mound Key Site: August 12, 1970 : Address Restricted: Fort Myers Beach: Part of the Archeological Resources of the Caloosahatchee Region MPS: 42: Murphy-Burroughs House: Murphy-Burroughs House
Gonzalez left his home in Asturias Province, Spain in 1846 and traveled to America where he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in May 1859, in Key West, Florida. [4] During the Seminole Indian War and American Civil War, Gonzalez assisted the Union Army by delivering mail and other supplies to troops stationed at a federal garrison in Southwest Florida known as Fort Myers. [5]
The population of Fort Myers City had been 575 citizens in 1890. By 1930, it had climbed to 9,082. [44] In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the city of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990.
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Boca Raton as a city was the creation of architect Addison Mizner. Prior to him, Boca Raton was an unincorporated farming town with a population of 100 in 1920. [41]: 7 [42] In 1925, Mizner announced his plan for "the foremost resort city on the North American continent," [43]: 4 "a new exclusive social capital in America."