Boynton Beach

History

:See also William S. Linton Archaeological evidence indicates Native American inhabitation of the region dating back thousands of years, with Ais, Calusa, Jaega, Mayaimi, and Tequesta peoples settling in or near modern-day Palm Beach County. A complex of mounds west of present-day Boynton Beach and near the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge includes shards of pottery possibly from 150 BCE. An excavation of the site also yielded beads and glass from as recently as the 16th century, which are believed to have been influenced by the Spanish. Captain James A. Armour, head keeper of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, filed the first land claim in Boynton Beach in 1875, although he is unlikely to have lived there. but the hotel lasted until 1925. Boynton Beach was founded on September 26, 1898, when Byrd Spilman Dewey and her husband Fred S. Dewey filed the original plat in the Dade County courthouse for the Town of Boynton. Fred S. Dewey, one of Flager's secretaries, bought a large area of land west of the Intracoastal Waterway earlier that year. He subdivided the land into 2.5 acre (1.0 ha) tracts for agricultural uses, which he sold to settlers and hotel workers. Buyers of these tracts also received a plot within the residential sections of the townsite. The first bridge crossing the Intracoastal Waterway opened in 1911 at Ocean Avenue. During the same year, the Boynton Woman's Club and the Florida Federal of Women's Clubs established the first library in Boynton, then staffed by volunteers. The 1910s also had the creation of the town's first bank in 1915 and first ocean road (State Road A1A) in 1916. The name "Boynton Beach" was first used by a community that broke off from the Town of Boynton in 1931. In 1939, that community changed its name to "Ocean…

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Boat-tailed Grackle

  Quiscalus major Vieillot, 1819 · Aves
  24,768
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  23,221
• White Ibis

  Eudocimus albus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  22,258
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  21,567
• Eurasian Moorhen

  Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  21,436
• Anhinga

  Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  20,436
• Great Egret

  Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  19,325
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  19,209