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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Martin County, Florida
Adjacent to Martin County, Florida
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| | 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 honor . . . — — Map (db m14314) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m14311) HM |
| Near SE Federal Highway (U.S. 1) at Park Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m106565) HM |
| On Southwest Warfield Boulevard (Florida Route 710) at Southwest Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Southwest Warfield Boulevard. |
| | Born in 1923, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was the first Chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, elected in 1967. She spent her early life with her parents, Ada Tiger and Abe Partan, at the Seminole camp in Indiantown. Tribal medicine men threatened . . . — — Map (db m148906) HM |
| On Southwest Citrus Boulevard (County Road 726) 0.2 miles east of Southwest Myrtle Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m96931) HM |
| On Northeast Dixie Highway 0.2 miles south of Northeast Indian River Drive (County Road 707), on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1893, a community of Episcopal worshippers began to emerge in this area. With the property donated by Charles H. and Mary Racey, the congregation established the All Saints' Episcopal Church and All Saints' Cemetery in 1898.
The All Saints' . . . — — Map (db m112175) HM |
| Near Northeast Indian River Drive (County Route 707) at Northeast Elaine Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | A Marker for Millennia
A recognizable landmark on the west bank of the Indian River, the prominent rise we know today as Mount Elizabeth, is actually a collection of debris from a Late Archaic village over 4,200 years old. The Archaic . . . — — Map (db m150970) HM |
| Near North East Indian River Drive 0.3 miles from NE Palmer Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m106567) HM |
| On Northeast Dixie Highway (State Road 707) at Northeast Arch Street, on the left when traveling south on Northeast Dixie Highway. |
| | This Mediterranean Revival style monument typical of the pre-Depression Florida Boom was designed by Nat C. Hodgdon of Pfeiffer and O'Reilly Architects, constructed by A. L. Doenges and completed on February 20, 1926. The arch was built to celebrate . . . — — Map (db m83286) HM |
| Near Northeast Indian River Drive (County Route 707) 0.3 miles north of Northeast Palmer Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Mt. Elizabeth and the surrounding property were purchased by explorer William Henry Racey in the late 1850's. In 1891, his son, Charles Racey, built a three-story wood-frame house on the mound for his family and started a pineapple and citrus . . . — — Map (db m117570) HM |
| Near Northeast Indian River Drive 0.3 miles north of Northeast Palmer Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The mansion at
Tuckahoe
1938
Restored 2009
Listed on the National Register
of Historic Places by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m112168) HM |
| On SW Kanner Highway (State Road 76) 2.3 miles east of U.S. 98/441, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee. This deadly hurricane destroyed hundreds of buildings and left millions of dollars of property damage. Many of . . . — — Map (db m114784) HM |
| On South Sewall's Point Road south of Southeast Ocean Boulevard (State Road A1A), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Sewall's Point, with high fertile hammocks situated between the St. Lucie and Indian rivers, attracted this area's earliest settlers. These pioneers cleared the land, planted pineapples, and citrus, and traveled to Titusville by sailboat for . . . — — Map (db m112170) HM |
| On Indialucie Parkway at North Sewall's Point Road (County Road 707), in the median on Indialucie Parkway. |
| | Dr. William H. Baker and his family settled here in 1880 and named the place Waveland. Their home was the first permanent residence in what is Martin County today, and Waveland was prominent on Florida maps for many years. The section line that . . . — — Map (db m112169) HM |
| On West High Point Road at East High Point Road, in the median on West High Point Road. |
| | In 1889, Capt. Henry Seawall and his wife, Abbie, settled on the peninsula that bears their name. Previously, the Sewall family inherited a third of the 16,000-acre Miles-Hanson Grant, awarded by the king of Spain in 1823. Within the grant were the . . . — — Map (db m127508) HM |
| Near Southeast MacArthur Boulevard 1.4 miles south of Southeast Ocean Boulevard (State Road A1A), on the left when traveling south. |
| | The iron-hulled Italian bark Georges Valentine was built in 1869 at Liverpool, England. She was wrecked here in a storm on October 16, 1904, while bound from Pensacola to Buenos Aires with a load of lumber. Five members of her twelve-man crew . . . — — Map (db m112173) HM |
| On Southeast MacArthur Boulevard 1.4 miles south of Southeast Ocean Boulevard (State Road A1A), on the left when traveling south. |
| | Only one remaining of nine on Florida east coast commissioned in 1875 for the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Keepers provided shelter, food, clothing, and transportation to survivors of shipwrecks and storms at sea. In U.S. Coast Guard Service through WW . . . — — Map (db m112172) HM |
| On Southeast MacArthur Boulevard 1 mile south of Northeat Plantation Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Europeans arriving at Hutchinson Island in the 16th century found the island populated by hundreds of Native Americans living in settlements bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River.
The rich marine environment provided these . . . — — Map (db m106588) HM |
| On South East Dixie Highway (State Road A1A) at Southeast Delmar Street, on the right when traveling north on South East Dixie Highway. |
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Built in 1925 by R.l. Robb Construction Co. for the Golden Gate Development Company, this building is one of Martin County's most distinctive historical structures. The two-story, trapezoidal building was designed in the Mission/Mediterranean . . . — — Map (db m136029) HM |
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