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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25Z3_the-sanborn-wall_Boca-Raton-FL.html
On this spot in June 1942, spies from German U-boats landed and occupied Dr. William Sanford's home built on this site in 1937. The subs, deployed during WWII as part of Hitler's Operation Drumbeat, torpedoed tankers and freighters traveling the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TTH_the-barefoot-mailmen-historical_Boca-Raton-FL.html
Along this beach in the 1880's and early 1890's walked United States mailmen on their sixty-six mile journey between Palm Beach and Miami. The trip required three days each way and they passed this spot the second day. They walked barefoot at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TTG_f-e-c-railway-depot-boca-raton-historical_Boca-Raton-FL.html
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The rails of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway first reached Boca Raton in 1895 providing an essential link in the extension of the railroad system south to Miami and the Florida Keys, and fostering the tourism and agricultural …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SC6_boca-raton-town-hall_Boca-Raton-FL.html
Designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by the architect Addison C. Mizner and completed by the architect William E. Alysmeyer, the Boca Raton Town Hall opened in April 1927 as the city's first municipal building, fire station and police depar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRXF_old-floresta-historic-district_Boca-Raton-FL.html
In October 1925, architect Addison Mizner announced construction of houses for his company's executives and his brother, the Reverend Henry Mizner, in the subdivision now known as Old Floresta. The Robinson Company, a New York contractor building …