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History of My Town
We are an
area where now extinct Indian tribes feasted on bounties of oysters and clams
over 2,500 years ago. The first tourists to the Jupiter-Tequesta-Hobe Sound
area were probably Spanish explorers. A tribe of Jaega Indians called the Jobes
lived on a high shell mound near the inlet. The Spaniards pronounced jobes "hoe
bay" and that lead to the naming of what is today Hobe Sound. The English
visited in 1763 and thought "Hoe-bay" sounded like the Spanish version of the
pagan god Jove and changed that region's name to Jupiter.
Jonathan
Dickinson was shipwrecked on the beach here in 1696 with 25 other crew members
and passengers. Their ship was called the "Reformation" and had been on a
voyage from Port Royal, Jamaica to Philadelphia when it was driven ashore in a
hurricane. Jonathan Dickinson became legendary in this area. His name was given
to The Jonathan Dickinson State Park and with 11,000 acres is the second
largest state park in Florida.
The
"Barefoot Mailman" route along the beach from Jupiter to Miami was operated
throughout the late 1800's, and this area became famous as the transportation
center of southeast Florida. It was a wilderness traveled by Indian River
steamers, sailboats, scows, trains, and floating hotels. Pioneer children
attended school aboard a school boat. Tequesta and Jupiter became "sister"
cities in 1957, and growth and development have been interrelated ever since.
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Originally incorporated under the name Georgiana, what is the oldest incorporated city in the United States?
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York, Maine, which received an English charter in March 1642, is the oldest incorporated city in the U.S. |
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