Who’s Your (Grand)Daddy?

His name was Abel Robert Thompson and he had passed 17 years before my father was born. He was my great-grandfather and my parents knew little of him and when I asked them for a photograph, they did not have one. So at fifteen I began a search that would continue for...

Woolbright Road, Boynton Beach, FL

Woolbright  Road, Boynton Beach Thomas Edward Woolbright Sr. He was born 1875in Illinois, he married Lovesta Ione Meredith, and he died 1953. He was an Illinois coal miner who brought his wife and three sons to Boynton in 1912 to grow pineapples. Woolbright’s wife,...

Morikami Park, Delray Beach, FL

Morikami Park is located at 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach and was named for George Sukeji Morikami. He was a Japanese immigrant to the United States who farmed in Palm Beach County for more than 65 years. When he joined the Yamato Colony, he was unmarried, and...

Lake Ida, Delray Beach, FL

Lake Ida, located in Delray Beach, Florida has two major parks, one located at 1455 Lake Ida Road and one at 950 N.W. 9th Street, Delray Beach, Florida. Lake Ida was named for Ida M Lowry Linton. She was as a Civic Leader, having organized the Saginaw Chapter,...

Historical Societies of Delray Beach and Area

Snowbirds, Locals, Bostonians, New Yawkers, Bahamians. Call folks what you may, but we all ended up at the same place. Warm weather,variety, surf, relaxation, outdoor activities, sunshine, opportunity. Arriving for different reasons, we still all ended up in the same...

William Linton, Delray Beach, FL

The rhythmic street names of Linton and Swinton of Delray Beach, FL engage many folks to question the background of each thoroughfare. Both streets are named for men who passed briefly through Delray Beach. William Seelye Linton was born in 1856 in St. Clair,...