The family lived in a tent until their first house was built on 30 acres at what is now the northbound ramp of I In the early s, the town was wired for electric, and the first water treatment plant was built, preparing Boynton for rapid change during the real estate boom. Due to a tax dispute, in the owners of the oceanfront land separated as the Town of Boynton Beach; they changed the name to Ocean Ridge in The Town of Boynton retained ownership of the Municipal Casino on the present Boynton Beach municipal beach; the casino, a meeting place with bathhouses, was razed in Box , W.
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In , the Deweys left their Salem, Ill. Later, they moved to Eustis, where Dewey Street still recalls the site of their cottage. In Jacksonville, they lived on Monroe and Mattie streets. And then, in , the couple came south and left their footprints all over this area.
In , Birdie Dewey bought acres in what is now Boynton Beach — 40 in the original town site and another 80 along the Intracoastal Waterway. Linton then sold 40 of his acres to Maj. Linton had a contract, but no deed. He defaulted, Birdie foreclosed, and in the land was hers again. It stayed in print for more than 20 years and sold , copies. Byrd Spilman Dewey died in Jacksonville on April 1, Native Americans living in the nearby areas include the Jeaga, the Ais, and the Tequestas.
Florida was rapidly settled through the late s. Lantana was homesteaded in , West Palm Beach incorporated in , and the East Coast Canal later renamed the Intracoastal was extended from Jacksonville to Miami in By the end of , the Florida East Coast Railroad had established a train station here and several stores had been opened.
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