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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 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 L. Kester in the 1930s. 25 feet (7.6 m) by 35 feet (11 m), they
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]
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.
July 10–13: 1972 Democratic National Convention is held in Miami Beach. August 21–23: 1972 Republican National Convention is held in Miami Beach. 1973 December 15: SeaWorld Orlando opens. 1974: Big Cypress National Preserve became the first national preserve in the United States National Park System.
Winds over 100 mph (160 km/h) swept more than 70 miles (110 km) of coast between a point "well north" of Palm Beach and northern Miami. The storm's top winds were between Lake Worth and Fort Lauderdale, lashing lesser-populated areas such as Pompano, Deerfield, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, and Margate.
Old allegations against a Broward Sheriff’s deputy who accused a Pompano Beach woman of assaulting him during a traffic stop three years ago have resurfaced, and they will be introduced in court ...
Collier Manor-Cresthaven was a census-designated place (CDP) that now serves as a neighborhood of Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. The population was 7,741 at the 2000 census. The population was 7,741 at the 2000 census.