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The History of Boca Raton, Florida

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Real Estate Agent with Mizner Grande Realty - Boca Raton, Florida Waterfront Expert
Many of my customers, especially the ones from up North often ask me about the beginnings of Boca. The earliest known inhabitants of the Boca Raton area were the Tequesta Indians, who lived in communities near the ocean as long ago as one thousand years up until the eighteenth century.  The construction of the Florida East Coast Canal (which is todays inter-coastal waterway) and the Florida East Coast Railway in the 1890's made the area accessible to the first pioneers.  By the early 1900's Boca was a tiny farming community which specialized in growing pineapples.  These farmers were made up of a group of Japanese immigrants under the leadership of Mr. Joseph Sakai, who formed a community along what is today Yamato Road in 1904.  In 1925 the town of Boca Raton became incorporated at the peak of the Florida land boom.  The Town Council then appointed Addison Mizner to plan a world class resort community.  His top of the line hotel, which was called the Cloister Inn, was completed in 1926 and continues as a city landmark today as the Boca Raton Resort and Club.

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