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Monthly Archives: January 2012

How the Town of Boynton’s founding was discovered

By Ginger Pedersen | January 16, 2012 - 5:10 pm |January 28, 2014 Interesting Characters
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Today the Palm Beach Post ran a story on a proposal I had written to rename a park in downtown Boynton Beach for Fred S. Dewey and Byrd Spilman Dewey. This week’s blog will relate how this discovery was made. It happened this way: Readers from earlier blogs will know… Continue reading →

Flagler’s First Overseas Railroad was in Palm Beach

By Ginger Pedersen | January 8, 2012 - 5:07 pm |January 28, 2014 Buildings & Architecture
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January 22, 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of Henry M. Flagler’s “Overseas Railroad” completion and it’s arrival in Key West. But Flagler had built a tiny overseas railroad much earlier, right here in Palm Beach at the Breakers Hotel. Flagler’s first hotel in Palm Beach was the Hotel Royal… Continue reading →

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