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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IB_mount-elizabeth-mound_Jensen-Beach-FL.html
Mount Elizabeth Mound was constructed approximately 4,000 years ago during the Late Archaic Period by Florida bands who selected this site for a ceremonial shell midden-mound. It was occupied 4,000-800 years ago by ancient peoples who first subsis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HY_trapper-nelson-interpretive-site_Jupiter-FL.html
When he arrived from New Jersey in the early 1930s, Vincent Natulkiewicz, also known as Vince "Trapper" Nelson found the area still teeming with wildlife. For decades he lived off the land, supplementing his diet of raccoon, gopher torto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TTF_jupiter-indiantown-road-historical_Indiantown-FL.html
From 1900 until the late 1950s, the Jupiter Indiantown Road connected the communities of Jupiter and Indiantown, giving residents access to resources. Dade County governed the area in 1899, when the new road was cut. In Indiantown about that time,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KI9_stuart-welcome-arch_Jensen-Beach-FL.html
This Mediterranean Revival style monument typical of the pre-Depression Florida Boom was designed by Nat C. Hodgdon of Pfeiffer and OReilly Architects, constructed by A. L. Doenges and completed on February 20, 1926. The arch was built to celebrat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9AJ_camp-murphy-site_Hobe-Sound-FL.html
In 1942 the federal government opened Camp Murphy. It was the home of the Southern Signal Corps School during World War II and served as a U.S. Army base for instruction in radar operation in the early course of the war. The post was named in hono…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9AG_jonathan-dickinson-shipwreck_Jupiter-FL.html
Three miles to the east on September 23, 1696, the British barkentine Reformation foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who descr…