On Feb. 8, 1941, the Norton Gallery and School of Art opened its doors to the public in West Palm Beach. The museum was founded by Chicago industrialist Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth Calhoun Norton, pictured below.
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On Feb. 4, 1836, the Florida Legislature chose the name Dade County for the area from the upper Keys to Jupiter. The county was named for Major Francis Langhorne Dade who was massacred by Indians in north central Florida at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. Indian Key was the county seat.
This marker stands on the spot where Francis Dade fell when he was killed in 1835. The site of the battle is now Dade Battlefield Historic State Park in Bushnell Fla. ...
It's hard to escape football fever in south Florida — what with the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl at Sun Life Stadium — so let's take a look at some local football players who have made history.
Indianapolis Colt receiver Pierre Garcon, a 2004 John I. Leonard graduate, and New Orleans Saints fullback Heath Evans, a King's Academy grad, will be at the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 (Evans won't be playing though; he's out with an injury), but they're not the only local boys to make it big.
Pittsburgh Steeler wide receiver Santonio Holmes of Glades Central was last year's Super Bowl MVP, after he made an amazing tip-toe catch in the end zone for the winning touchdown.
And 15 area players made the Florida High School Athletic Association's list of the 100 greatest football players in Florida history, including past stars -- Carver's Barry Hill, Kennedy's Lemar Parrish and Atlantic's Bobby Butler -- and present ones -- Pahokee's Anquan Boldin, Suncoast's Devin Hester and Santaluces' Vince Wilfork.
Other area high school football players who made the list:
Ottis Anderson (Forest Hill, pictured at right with St. Louis Cardinals owner William V. Bidwell as he holds up the jersey that he would wear for the 1979 season)
John Carney (Cardinal Newman)
Anthony Carter (Suncoast)
Eddie Edwards (Fort Pierce Central)
Jessie Hester (Glades Central)
Rickey Jackson (Pahokee)
Don Latimer (Fort Pierce Central)
Fred Taylor...
