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Located
at the extreme south of
Palm Beach County, the
earliest known
inhabitants of Boca
Raton were the Tekesta
Indians who lived along
the shores of what is
now the Intracoastal
Waterway. Spanish
explorers and buccaneers
were sailing off these
shores in the 1500s and
found the natural harbor
of Lake Boca Raton a
safe refuge. The Spanish
are responsible for
giving the City its name
-- Boca de Ratones (the
"de" and the
"es" in
Ratones were dropped
over the years).
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 By
the early 1900s Boca
Raton was a tiny
agricultural community
with many planters
specializing in
pineapple cultivation,
the brainchild of a
young Japanese student
from New York named
Joseph Sakai. With
promises of land and the
approval of the United
States Commissioner of
Immigration, Joseph
traveled to Japan to
recruit farmers for his
Florida project. They
named their community
Yamato, an ancient name
for Japan. One of those
early immigrants from
Japan was George Sukeji
Morikami, who donated
the land for the
Morikami Park and Museum
of Japanese Culture
which is located in
nearby Delray Beach.
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In May of 1925 the Town
of Boca Raton was
created and an architect
named Addison Mizner
decided to build a dream
city of his own. He
bought 17,000 acres of
land and designed what
was to be a new world
resort, a utopia of
architectural beauty,
centering around an
exclusive resort hotel.
Boca Raton became a
playground for the
wealthy who enjoyed
staying at The Boca
Raton Resort and Club
(photo upper right).
Mizner's influence is
evidenced today in much
of Boca Raton's
architecture as well as
the world class shops,
restaurants and
boutiques located inside
Mizner Park.
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 Until
the early 1960s Boca Raton remained an upscale
small Palm Beach County town with the usual
additional winter population. Like the rest of
South Florida, Boca Raton experienced a fantastic
building boom during the 1970s. It was the strict
zoning standards that were adopted during that
time, and continue to be strongly enforced today,
that are responsible for preserving the beauty of
Boca Raton
Hotel.
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