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This week in history: Seaboard Air Line Railway Station opens

Originally from January 23, 2012

On Jan. 25, 1925, the Orange Blossom Special arrived in West Palm Beach for the grand opening of the Seaboard Air Line station, the flagship of the Seaboard line. The Mediterranean Revival station building, on Tamarind Avenue at Datura Street, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Seaboard line was the second railroad to come to the area, after Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Postcard from around 1939 with the...

Bibletown Once U.S. Army Air Field

Originally from October 8, 2003

Q: What's the story behind the religious complex called "Bibletown"? A: In 1950, former Detroit preacher Ira Lee Eshleman, a Miami Christian radio commentator, took all his savings, about $1,000, and made a down payment on about 30 acres a few blocks west of downtown Boca Raton. The land had been the property of the former Boca Raton Army Air Field. Soon the Boca Raton Bible Conference Grounds would sprawl across 320 acres and be valued...

2011: Play South Florida version of ‘Where’s Waldo’ — Today we’re playing a version of “Where’s Waldo?” Recently we came across a map of Florida, dated 1921. Its origin and source are unknown. The most...