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Kester Cottages at Founder's Park is a historic site operated by the Pompano Beach Historical Society in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. The site includes a local history museum and exhibits from the late 1930s. They constitute the Pompano Beach Historical Museum. The cottages are two of the perhaps 150 built in Pompano Beach by William ...
The Sample-McDougald House (also known as the Sample Estate or Pinehaven) is a 4,700 square feet (440 m 2) historic home in Pompano Beach, Florida, built in 1916.It is currently located at 450 Northeast 10th Street, but was originally built on Dixie Highway and moved to its present location by the Sample-McDougald House Preservation Society in 2001. [2]
Tequesta Indians lived in the area. [12]The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast. [13]There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. [3]
The Sample Estate (also known as the McDougald House) is a historic house located at 3161 North Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach, Florida.The house is a noteworthy example of the Colonial Revival style and is one of the most architecturally distinguished homes in the community.
Pompano Beach: Completed in 1907, the lighthouse stands 142 feet tall (43.3 meters) and is one of the most powerful lighthouses in the world whose light can be seen at 28 nautical miles. [8] 14: Hollywood Boulevard Historic Business District: Hollywood Boulevard Historic Business District
The Pompano Beach Mound, located at Indian Mound Park in Pompano Beach, Florida, in Broward County, is a 100-foot (30 m) wide, 7-foot (2.1 m) tall oval Tequesta burial mound. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 2014.
[1] the land for the cemetery was donated by Paul Hunter, Sr., a local businessman, to accommodate the interment of black Americans in Pompano Beach. It is the final resting place of Esther Rolle (1920–1998), actress famous for the 1970s sitcom Good Times and her sister Estelle Evans (1906–1985), from the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird .
The Old Pompano Fire Station, located at 219 NE 4th Avenue, Pompano Beach, Florida, is a museum operated by the Pompano Beach Historical Society.It is housed in the city's first fire station, and contains two antique fire engines, together with photographs and artifacts relating to the history of firefighting in Pompano Beach.