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Scenic Swinton Avenue - FMSF JUNE 1989 Volul I IU2, Number 8 COMPLIMENTARY SC BULK RATE ,`; , 4 r .a 4 ,, . • ,- .. ::. . b , ..� � U.S. POSTAGE PAID BUSINES •-°A+Debra saloon s Snccesa s � ,corm u ii,,,,,,'''"-it". . • Y ` ,,e�'�. � ,� _ - DELRAY BEACH, FL 33444 THEATRE: Teens'N'. Theatre-provides` community'fun. Page 9 ,f PERMIT NO. 251 Native TheSun ,...County Swinton Avenue : Historic Paramedics ,thine` at. rlve orBusy1 wa,y •9 lntiaI . - Competition Delray homeowners fight to keep the Three Palm Beach County ` landmark street from being widened Paramedic teams placed in the top six spots in an Inter- In 1894, William S. Linton, and county Comprehensive '- i?$ � national Competition held in postmaster from Saginaw, Plans both project the need for @' - - --... Calgary,' Canada this past Michigan, and later United Swinton to become a four lane April. Palm Beach County States congressman, asked his "county feeder".Homeowners Fire Rescue placed first, good friend David Swinton to in the area, however, want ,. GreenAcres Fire Depart tent join him on a trip to Florida. Swinton Avenue to remain two �' placedsecondandWestPalm The Flagler railroad then only lane and further to be beauti- - Fire Department,sixth i came as faras West Palm Beach. fied into a tree-canopied scenicTA "We were:alb very pleased, When the two men heard of drive that they hope will bean* i""" With theoute4tilkofthe 1 bargain land for sale south of asset to Delray's historic dis- _ ��, ., .•0""'""` $ I n j 9t9tan • boat to the mouth of the canal At about the same time these � } tz ��x i.. I. ,, =�� 1 �1 ( 1 l� m (now the Intracoastal Water- homeowner associations were .'t �I Pt A + §� «I way)and then down the canal forming, local newspapers re- photo by Jim Greene :iih � ft d "• by barge. ported that Swinton had been Historic Swinton supporter Virginia Snyder at her 1903 house its , , �. � David Swinton was a cau- removed from city beautifica- and 80 foot right-of-ways were 1902 on south Swinton Avenue -yy0 ,$, 3w�, '4:. r•4 i, n„. tious,reserved man who owned tion plans because the county proposed. by the Sundy family.The house i6 tK lfG4+s�a e n a :j a'a ' �� " <: a book store in Saginaw, ac- called for widening of the street Mary Lou Jamison of the Del has only recently been offered •, � . +r> « •%It ,° cording to Swinton's nephew, by the year 2010. The associa- Ida Association explained the for sale. The first church was •r zt Cecil Farrar,in his book,Incom- tions went before the city corn- problem this way."At first,rep- located at the corner of S.Swin- Nitg� K r ++ •: parable Delray Beach. But Swan- mission and asked instead that resentatives were told that it ton and Atlantic Avenue. It f ;'4 $ +` = •l ,: ton invested in a Florida Swinton be designated a two would be difficult to beautify a was ecumenical under the ju- R" , r� r _ • '. "jungle"and got a street named lane scenic drive since two his- road controlled by the county, risdiction of the Methodist "f 1` ' -," `' after hiim> toric districts had been created and [Delray] city officials had Episcopal Church South. St. 'l`, �i ' «d x During the last few years, along its pate.(the area around reservations about the cost of Paul's Episcopal Church's first �� e 3 , h several property owner's have the Old School Square Cultural( maintainance if Swinton be- building was erected in 1904 on _' t?�. ;. . 8+, �'+ ; formed in the older neighbor- Center project and Delray's first came a city street.At that point, the corner of S. Swinton Ave- r r�� .� ++• _�_ .� e hoods in Delray. Of these,Old subdivision,Del Ida Park from formeratycommissionerMarie nue and S.W. 2nd Street. The cxi � , • ', __ : School Square Historic District N.E. 4th Street to N.E. 8th Hornberger investigated swap- Bahama style home of Virginia r i,,t , F* r _ Property Owners, Pineapple Street.)This request was passed ping Swinton and S.10th Street and Ross Synder, the second wh: ooksec•E r• Grove Support Group,Del Ida, by the commi,sion. with the county;but evidently house in Delray, was built on Rash' ;x ' Lake Ida, and Dell Park Asso- However, association mem- there was no follow through on Swinton in 1903. The street is '_ v ., t1 ciations all claim Swinton Ave- bers were informed later that the swap.Association represen- still lined with historic homes s ; rr 'xtd nue as a common boundary. plans for widening Swinton re- tatives were recently told it was and churches. the•dtre: c•othsitiiil*re But this important avenue, mained in thenew county Com- not a problem after all to land- Virginia Snyder said,"Fixing picked e-i* lgied longdefiningthecenterof town, prehensive Plan and also in the scape a road controlled by the up is contagious. To prevent £,Er weha txtygoodteams has become the center of con- initial draft of Delray Beach's county or state." deterioration and give people s z� why aft Ltd zmOr /' ' troversy in a neighborhood re- Plan. Swinton Avenue was The oldest permanent house confidence, the city needs to pied R � ,' vitalization movement.The city designated asa"county feeder in Delray Beach was built in stick to plans for making Swin- e, t -, ton a two lane scenic road and 1:o404 make a strong case to the Met- � � SPECIAL REPORT: ropolitan Planning Organiza- tion." � �e ( INSIDE. . . She pointed out that early • �• "' - °� Who residents chose to build on • Alotofif 1a$, Art 12 Letters 4 • Swinton rather than the beach of iif is luc t h,"�N . Classifieds 16 Native Gardener 13 '� , area because it is on a ridge. Editorial 4 News 1,2 . Owns the �� fi„ Snyder further said that there Entrepreneur 14 Politics 5 are already several north south t t rati. Feature Story 6-7 Restaurants 12 .; roadways:Al A,Federal High- watOdt>;a'er bttti 4n� Horoscope 15 Saunders' Fla, 5 Beach '? , ri ; way, I-95, Congress, Military, Coa1.ndssIc!� *4 Jazz& Blues 1 1 Theatre 9 etc. "The need is for east-west ,deaarea'h616,-ialifiia Jazz Guide 11 Theatre Guide 10 Page b 1 roadways to bring shoppers in "Pa>ra14edxc Da �'` a �, y .. �:: +: �i ,;:,. . d� �^ ;era' See SWINTON page 2 4 t _ 117 .2 9 � l -, . NEWS `YC •;A ,y SiSCe°F"a`,L' &f qi problem anyway.Fulton would < space._"Pioneer Park", on city ".:.widening:of Swinton Ave ;'• ,Y ,, n ,,, . like to see Swinton beautified owned land at the south end of would be detrimental'�to the , COMP PLAN �t �' �'� `l city."" -4' s pa > } .t •, to S. 1 Oth Street,so that there, Swinton .-; ;; owth and beau of our ci �� y�. Continuedfrom Page 1 would not be a dividingline" **Already he-loud,rumble of '. . .Atone time,a majority of the ,, < .� �� K, 8 Y s� �4 �.�� such as the one which exists on traffic seems at odds with the city commission had voted to from the west. Swinton does East and West Atlantic. comfortable front rchesinthe back up the county plan,but in 1 � yt 1. $ . , not really go anywhere other O.S.S. Property Owner's po- historic district.Fulton believes recent weeks the Delray Beach rb,, 3 : , .., ,. x than through neighborhoods in .sition is, "what better way to four-laning=of Swinton would Planning and Zoning Board has r141C 'r Delray Beach." - spend money for beautification cause owners to move and ten- recommended that Swinton `�` P- s �':; Ann Fulton, copresident of :.than to save neighborhoods,''`ancies to'be short-lived. "It remain a two lane scenic road Braullworth the Old School Square Pro er bringpeople together,her, and:in- would also have a verydetri- and that Bond:.Program funds w• % '� F Sq P- h' Pe P g - �� 4 , Owners (O.S.S),wonders why sure a proper environment for mental effect on the •s ants of be increased to $250,000 for °�� Y P P p. i 1Op e01Y191 commuters to the north and Old School Square and the the propertyownerassociations beautification. Difector south would be considered Historical Society's Cason Cot- and the restoration movement Thus far it seems the only »4 ` before property owners and tax tage." in Delray Beach.The neighbor- opposition to what ro branch P .PertY ��dttar payers in Delray Beach. She The Women's Club, which hoods are ready to take off,but owners involved want have believes widening roads is very has existed in Delray Beach city support and investment is been.planners and some-;city fl ,0*ard f eeptiii ';V destructive to neighborhoods practically from 'its.founding, necessary. People are trying, officials who :are concerned 5��?;, n E tcsr� , ' and does not solve the traffic has agreed to sponsor a green but their energy would be dis- about maintenance and:think : S s sipated by disappointment. I that future traffic.needs may r P yf 1a Hunt, s, �l ditot -would not work restoringprop- call for widening of Swinton.:, 6 , y 3 7; ertyifIthoughtthisstreetwould Property.`association mem- a Rand 11p1 De .CgQ r' . '. be four-laned ' Fulton con- bers have faithfully attended . o Edtior cluded. city meetings.to support their c�° g' ' Another Swinton Avenue -point of vi w They have pre- t+i k Marinaro� £ ;`', ` homeowner, Elaine Roberts, pared slides and a beautifica- Barber . 1 .,,••• v, aa�Y emphasized that the,"right-of- tion plan to be presented at city. i'f ¢• ,:. ' � that nne Russ ways are a mess.":Roberts: commission meetings on May EUfer'leugr . - » would like to see curbs,better 23rd and_30th. Then commis- ; drama a and treesplanted on stoners will consider revisions 1t4 R enboger1,'„ the right-of-ways.. to the.Comprehensive Plan and , ElaineRoberts, In March this year,the Corn- vote .on r.to make the Y /. ,,{� Betsey button, rF -�; munit Redevelo ment revisio two lanes,60 foot #,r ., , .<Y Agency voted to support,the right-of waysand more money historic districts ro ert for beautification apermanent & c • �� MoOre, . P P Y W owner association's position on part of the plan. s Dr�rc�thy Milken, Swinton• venue, stating, -DottiePatterson�}�Y*� A ttig Dtti Dottie Pafiterson : ' ` Green bows flourish in Space Coast — 6C c Saturday, September 24, 1988 Boca Raton News C ;, t Delray Beach News AIII IIII , , ,,..ir_ a decidesSwintonwffl By Jenny Staletovich remain scenic early settlers, became the Staff Writer focus of concern among of the Old School Square Historic District, which the downtown." Delray Beach city commissioners agreed Organization t r announced plans to Metropolitan by 20 Planning surrounds the street. o Thursday to declare Swinton Avenue a scenic drive The MPO plans regional traffic flow. Siding with residents, commissioners agreed that right-of-wayssureitealo not the street from the county and to block any attempts to widen one of the suggestedeetthe city buy the Although the downtown street is heavily villagelikeeping h atmospheree street rrtheyow whopeill el to p preserve n ewith the make sure it is widened. my e city's oldest streets, which is lined with turn-of-the- traveled, serving as a main axis separating east projects such as the Old School century homes. But Mayor Doak Campbello objected to the The move, promptedby from west, preservationists say widening it would Swinton and Atlantic avenues. Square center at suggestion,Commissioner it may be too expensive. several of the city's endanger some of the homes that once housed some "We're historic groups, will also help preserve the city's of the city's most the homes families. talking about more of an ambling feeling opposed _ Jimmy Weatherspoon also vistori ike ambiance, commissioners said. through the downtown rather than a rushed, supported purchasing nit t m w In addition, he —Swinton Avenue, named after one of the city's traffic; it will onlyllinvite make eec room terres dents H scooting rgerboutte Asaid people Commissioner Marie upcoming g the future, saying P g projects "are going to warrant widening , P P slow down in the road." • • • . r . ., if f Y ' f i ' i I I f I ' i i i i as .i I .i I i t i + 11 i s 1 1 .f, • r , i J i V I f— '- - - - - � L - - -. . -- . PROPOSED 5'WIDDED SIDEWALK i- SO ' I` 1— - �� — • , t i , i : :,• , i �K • i i -:s ,•.� w . �i —j-4 .fie i t — 1_ j` ! j I I I i j tr ►. I 1 i I t / i 1 1 1 {1 l I_�� 1 L en F !HP @ 12'SACFI 5 a10'EACH i . ;� ~ " PROPOSED PARKING (23 SPACES) r. z-ae- —1 1 1' ' , , a i . • P 1 — — �� f . :. 1 --t .- w- - FEEL balmy, subtropical We are proud to offer this most unusual home in a most unusual town — Delray r�,�, -� �+-�` breezes from your huge Beach,jewel of Florida's "Gold Coast." - + -I,,-9 �; - f- ' ��, � �4-r _ ,,� _ � screened loggia room, -� _ '° '.•i provided with dining and sit Defray is among the earliest of southeast Florida's communities, founded bya band = 1. ` '� : ' ' 2 ting areas. of hardy "pioneers' in 1895, when the region could be reached only by water.' Early •• { - - L! y r . settlers farmed tomatoes, peppers, and green beans in fertile soil where homes now � :r -i`= °"'� - _ You are only steps from your line the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway. For several years, large pineapple 'aor• _Z_T - _: -- 3;b+u pool/lawn area and a natural plantations flourished. Later, the small town became an artists' cclony of note. ~ •! "� _: _.____ - __ garden area with small pools ,�1-,,�xs and restful garden sculptures. The settlement weathered freezes of farm crops, hurricanes, real estate "boom and ii.T ,- �° -,; �' Ci .tva7f� `�xLs'�%St. -�S�s .•i5 t:.. a;;it bust" in the 1920's, and through it all, thrived and built up a rich patina of historical eaning not found in most Gold Coast communities. Today, Delray Beach has grown 't approximately 35,000, but still retains its small town character, complete with a ENJOY rich fellowship with friends or family in a large entertainment area, including Viable downtown. It attracts many winter residents, who return again and again. formal and informal living areas, formal dining room, large screened porch, and large lawn/pool area. Outdoor living areas include a pagoda provided with water and elec- Delray's oldest surviving home was built in 1902. During that same decade, the tricity, a tea house, pavilion, a picnic table area, and shaded, private garden paths. property pictured here was built. Several subsequent remodelings have adapted the home charmingly to the Florida lifestyle with no sacrifice of its architectural integrity ENRICH a guest's time with you by providing a guest suite on the first floor, corn- or gracious, traditional flavor. For over 70 years, it has rung with the laughter of many, pletely separated from other living quarters. The suite includes a livingisleeping area, accommodating itself to the needs of each. Originally an estate reaching to our Lake efficiency kitchen, and its own bath, patio, and entrance. Eden, it still stands surrounded by a modern "estate" of 21/2 acres. It is currently elegantly appointed and imaginative decorated. PICK tropical fruits from your own mature grove and taste citrus as it was meant to be savored. v`) CZS RELAX in the evening on your - • second-floor screened porch q � � Y� •t` '} -t. entered from two bedrooms t �• - - `' ,r.'"' ' ,, !,1 - - -- - -- iis - ; 4 ?«,, - _, ' and overlooking the pool -- *� • ;a:... a. .. ,.. . .,, 'V--�. FEAST r r : ,1,. `__, t• :•�i - ' r t r you eyes on careful -t R�— • home that has already �yv •> ', :� yattention to detail, including a_ r -t _ • proven itself a joy to many, .--- high ceilings, hardwood 1 i_ _ a = i -_ I, _ this property stands ready to floors, cypress panelling, �`` ' welcome a new family to en- 0archedL stairwell window, I } # a, joyment of the Florida sub moldings, a bay window, a i . :- , - . ,i y tropical lifestyle. stained glass door. _— ' - -- . r .• r!., -" :,� a -ti- _�� FEEL cares drop away as you motor up the drive to your own ultra private retreat, un seen from the road, screened by landscaping, completely secluded in the very center 75 Ni SOAPro4/ of busy South Florida. f rIp SPECIFICATIONS DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA Construction: Frame N 1 , . �• 1 r 5-, Roof: Asphalt `' " a i • Windows: Double Hung Floors: Hardwood _` _ 1, ' Living Room: 15' x 16' — Bay Window — Fireplace ' �' _ .. Informal Living Room: 21'10" x 10'10" —Three Sides Glassed !*�_ • �• _ •V • Central Hall: 11'9"x 10'5" — Cypress Panelling d /��.., . ' Dining Room: 14'5"x 13'11" — Stained Glass Door tat z II :,,„ , ,..„ Kitchen: 13'6" x 13'5" — Self-cleaning GE Range — Frost- --_ _ free Refrigerator— GE Dishwasher— Disposal - — �''.. - Butler's Pantry: 11'6" x 5'4" — Many Cupboards _ III - Breakfast Room: 7'5"x 8' --- — IBV Guest Apartment __- �.�r Living/Bedroom: 11'6" x 14'2" Ste ' - '•, z` ;a,� Kitchen: 13 1„x 5,8„ \ _r. —ar ._�a ` t ' L '- Loggia(Porch) 29'6"x 17'7" Lotus Room: 11'3"x 10'7" .'� .�- a-:.:r'u'� , -4 ��-�� - t' ter.._ • ,�..�.:��'� Bedrooms: 11'4" x 12' — 11'2" x 11'8" 15' x 11' — 11'3" x 12'1" • - Upstairs Screened Porch: 22'8" x 11'5" Single Car Garage: With Storage Room Storage Shed - Property Fenced: With gate at Drive Pool: 16' x 32', with Spa , Taxes: County Only Utilities: City Water,Septic Tank Irrigation: Sprinkler System Price: Unfurnished S450, 000 Curnished Information furnished in these Specifications is believed accurate but not warranted. j 0iag 7/7/ ► DEVELOPMENT ` T • Defray plans greening of S venue Thornbrough will be paid $50,000 Trees and landscaped for the project survey and design, islands in the works money that comes from $500,000 in bond money allocated for the project. BY DACE WluuMsoN Commissioners said they liked the STAFF WRITER plans, but wanted to know how much maintaining the greenery will cost be- Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach could look a lot greener by spring. fore approving them. Plans to beautify a 3.5 mile stretch "I'm very impressed with the Plans," Commissioner Jay Alperin of the avenue from South 10th Street said. "I have one major concern — to North 22nd Street were unveiled to Delray Beach city commissioners has anyone looked at the mainte- Tuesday night. nance cost of it?" The beautification project includes possible tax planting hundreds of trees, sodding swales, installing curbs and adding City Manager David Harden sug- landscape islands south of Old School gested the city consider setting up a Square. special taxing district to pay for The project's price tag is $492,000, maintenance. most of it to be funded through the If this happens, a Swinton Avenue city's $21 million Decade of Excel-. homeowner with a house valued at lence Bond issue. $100,000 and a homestead exemption could pay an additional $7.50 a year 3 months of work in property taxes to cover the landscape's upkeep, Harden said. If the commission approves the Many decorative items like street plans, work on the project could be- lamps, paving bricks and old fashion- gin late this year, with a 90-day com- ed-style street signs had to be cut pletion date, according to landscape from design plans because there architect Grant Thornbrough, who wasn't enough money. drew up the plans at the request of Mayor Tom Lynch said that he the Swinton Avenue Task Team. would like to see the city find a way The group is charged with planning to come up with the additional and overseeing the beautification pro- $132,000 needed to purchase these ject. items.❑ SHONlS (' • An a bso ritely marvelous t way to start your day! N *1111 .mc` IVlizner Park 8 7744•301 PLAZA REAL•BOCA RATON FL ►. WFSIAY, W:tf AM. iRIS JUST .,11, i .A _ "Vs On The Following Films: Jurassic Park r.: In « Cei Menace . 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J. ► • liiiiiiiiiii>• i� i>_ CITY OF DELRAY BEACH 100 N.W.1st AVENUE DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA 33444 305/243-7000 TO: Mayor City Commission City Manager FROM: Historic Preservation Board City of Delray Beach DATE: September 15, 1988 RE: Historic Swinton Avenue The Historic Preservation Board encourages the City Commission to designate Swinton Avenue from St. Paul's Episcopal (Beginning of Historic District and early Town Border) to the Unity Church a Scenic Drive, and begin Beautifcation projects to be coordinated through the Community Improvement Bureau. Named after Delray Beach's most prominent early military commander Col. David Swinton from Linton, Michigan, Swinton Avenue provides the axis between East and West, the Cross Roads of Town intersecting with Atlantic Avenue at its Center, and the setting for Delray Beach's oldest residences, sites, residences, schools, churches, and the new Cultural Arts Center for South Palm Beach County. Swinton Avenue's inventory consists of: Historic Sundy Residence 1902 St. Paul's Episcopal 1935 c. Cathcart residence 1907 c. "The Parsonage" 1905 c. Linton Family Residence Site 1895 (Demolished) Old School Square Cultural Center 1912/1926/1928 Gearheat House 1924 The Long Residence 1924 The Rhoden Building 1912 The "Fisher" Cottages 1935 Cason Cottage 1915 c. Cason Memorial Methodist Church Trinity Lutheran Church Del-Ida Park Historic District 704 North Swinton Avenue 1924 The Love Residence 1937 c. The DeWitt Residence 1935 c. Sundy/Clint Moore/Gringle Residence 1924 Seward Webb Residence 1915 c. Church of The Palms Unity Church Pruyser Plantation House 1931 c. THE EFFORT ALWAYS MATTERS Page 2 Also: Numerous fine examples of Craftsman Cottages, Mediterranean Revival Homes, Florida Vernacular cottages remain in settings landscapped in tone with Early Florida Settings. Architect Sam Ogren, Sr. 's first structure at 704 North Swinton Avenue is a highlight of Delray's only street in which there are architectural examples from 1902 to the present time. The dimension, scale, proportions of this street must be protected creating a closeness of community and neighborhood. Beautification plans should stress, intimacy, shade, and slowing the velocity of automobiles to encourage the appreciation of the community's heritage. The purpose, intent, and function of the inner city was never to accomodate road widening, but to deepen the values of community of why residences want to live in close proximity to churches, schools, beaches, shopping, family and friends. Thank you. cc: Lula Butler, Director fo Community Improvement Dorothy Ellington, Community Development PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM TO: ALL DEPARTMENT HEADS FROM: GREG LUTTRELL rl TRAFFIC ENGINEER RE: CHANGE IN ROAD JURISDICTION DATE: AUGUST 14, 1992 At the meeting of March ii, 1992, the City Commission passed a resolution requesting jurisdiction over certain County Roads . On May 26, 1992, the Board of County Commissioners approved this resolution transferring the following County Roads to the City's jurisdiction: SWINTON AVENUE - Within City Limits OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY - Linton Boulevard to S.E. 10th Street - U.S. #1 to North City Limits GERMANTOWN ROAD - Congress Avenue to west City Limits WALLACE DRIVE - Linton Boulevard to S.W. 10th Street GEORGE BUSH BOULEVARD - U.S. #1 to A-1-A (Excluding Intracoastal Bridge) N.E. 2ND AVENUE/SEACREST BOULEVARD - George Bush Boulevard to north City Limits N.E. 22ND STREET - Swinton to N.E. 2nd Avenue/Seacrest Boulevard This transfer in road jurisdiction means that the City is now the responsible agency for all purposes (permitting, right-of-way requirements, maintenance, etc. ) . 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SVV/l V ' V ' ' �all�G S m Z r �n y 0 m • SWINTON AVENUE PROTECTION RE: GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF EXCEPTION DATE: JUNE 8, 1991 IN ORDER TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE GAE APPLICATION, AND TO CLEARUP SOME PREVIOUS MIS-UNDERSTANDINGS, I BELIEVE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE APPROPRIATE. IS SWINTON AVENUE, FROM S. 10TH ST. TO N . 4TH ST ( LAKE IDA) , PROTECTED FROM 4-LANING WITH THIS GAE APPLICATION'?�? ' DOES THIS GAE JEOPARDIZE THE CITY ' S CHANCES TO SECURE JURISDICTION OF SWINTON AVENUE ?? IS THE USE OF A 4-LANE, 2010 MPO TRAFFIC PLAN SCENERIO IN THIS APPLICATION DETRIMENTAL TO THE CITY' S PRESENT POSITION AND DESIRE TO KEEP SWINTON AVENUE 2-LANED ' ' WHAT IS THE CITY' S BEST STRATEGY, WITH REGARDS TO THE COUNTY ROAD DEPT, THE GAE, AND THE CRALLS PROCESS, THAT WOULD ASSURE THE CITY OF A SCENIC, 2-LANED, AND NON-COUNTY THOROUGHFARE ON SWINTON AVENUE??? ISN'T IT APPROPRIATE AND TIMELY TO CONCENTRATE EFFORTS TOWARD THAT GOAL AND TO DIRECT STAFF TO ESTABLISH SUCH A STRATEGY29? vvv.vP? IN REFERENCE TO MR. HARDEN"S COMMENTS IN A LETTER OF 5/29/91 , WHEN WAS THE CITY"S POSITION IN FAVOR OF THE 2010 MPO TRAFFIC PLAN AND 4-LANING FROM S . 10TH ST TO LAKE IDA2-'?22 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT DOCUMENTATION. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE' ' ' ' ' ' V THANK YOU 0/14114) PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT REFERENCES TO "SWINTON AVENUE" SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD AS ALL OF SWINTON AVENUE. OFTEN TIMES DISCUSSIONS TURN TO THE SITUATION NORTH OF LAKE IDA AND THE SOUTH 14 BLOCKS ARE LEFT UNDISCUSSED AND THEREFOR UNPROTECTED. PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM TO: BERT A. BARCINSKI, ACTING CITY MANAGER FROM: AVID J. OVACS, DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING DATE: JUNE 11, 1991 SUBJECT: . G.A.E . - FULTON INQUIRIES OF JUNE 10TH The following information is provided in response to Ann Fulton's most recent set of inquiries regarding the G.A.E . application and the "Swinton Avenue Protection" effort. Since the G.A.E. application is before the -City Commission this evening, I anticipate her inquiries being aired. #1 Is Swinton Avenue, from S 10th St to N 4th St (Lake Ida) , protected from 4-laning with this GAE application? No. The GAE would provide that proposed development in the CBD-GAE area would not be prohibited from occurring if LOS "D" is not met. It also provides that neither the City nor the new development would be required to make improvements for four-laning. #2 Does this G.A.E. jeopardize the City's changes to secure jurisdiction of Swinton Avenue? No. The issue of jurisdiction is to be decided upon review and change to the functional classification of Swinton Avenue i .e. a change from a County Collector to a City Collector roadway. #3 Is the use of a four-lane, 2010 MPO Traffic Plan scenario in this application detrimental to the City's present position and desire to keep Swinton Avenue two-laned? No. There have been some additional changes to both the 2010 Plan and the input to the Test II Model with respect to Swinton Avenue. First, Swinton Avenue - north of Lake Ida Road - is now shown as a two lane facility north of Lake Ida Road on the Plan. It is also used as such in the Test II Model . Second, while the Plan shows Swinton Avenue as four lanes south of Atlantic Avenue, the Test II Model is using it only as a two laned facility (this input data is being verified) . To: Robert A. Barcinski, Acting City Manager Re: G.A.E. - Fulton Inquires of June 10th Page 2 #4 . What is the City's best strategy, with regard to the County Road Dept. , the GAE, and the CRALLS process, that would assure the City of a scenic, two-laned, and non-County thoroughfare on Swinton Avenue? There are two strategies which can be pursued. One is to have Swinton Avenue removed from the County Thoroughfare Right-of-way Protection Map. To do so necessitates an : amendment to the County' s Traffic Element of its Comprehensive Plan. To proceed with such an undertaking, we (the City) should use the data gained from the GAE application and work with Boynton Beach and Boca Raton in developing a unified position with respect to the Swinton/Dixie cooridor. The unified position should then be presented to the County in the form of a request to their Traffic Element. to , The second is to pursue a "reduction in width" as allowed pursuant to Article 13, Section 5, of the County Traffic Performance Ordinance. The difference between this option and the first option is that the Swinton corridor would remain designated as a County Collector and would remain within their jurisdiction. However, the laneage would be reduced to two lanes on official maps . #5 Isn't it appropriate and timely to concentrate efforts toward that goal and to direct staff to establish such a strategy? I believe that we are working on such a strategy. However only one step can be taken at a time. The first step has been the consensus of the City Commission to pursue the "preservation" of Swinton Avenue. The second step is the accumulation of data which is being accomplished through the G.A.E. application preparation process . We are still in that process . There have been advocates of pursuing a political solution by simply approaching the Board of County Commissioners . I strongly recommend against such a strategy for an action taken without adequate supporting data can be relatively easily reversed at a later data. However, a decision made on good data can be defended and retained. Also, there is no programmed activity which involves physical improvements which would add laneage to Swinton Avenue. To do so requires an amendment to the County Comprehensive Plan and the City Comprehensive Plan. Also, at least a five-year planning period is factored in once a need to widen a roadway is established. Thus, there is no urgency to proceed because of a threat of actual improvements . To: Robert A. Barcinski, Acting City Manager Re: G.A.E. - Fulton Inquires of June 10th Page 3 #6 . Re reference to 5/29/91 letter re City's position in favor of 2010 MPO Traffic Plan and four-laning from S 10th to Lake Ida Road - request for documentation. The situation occurred when the MPO Plan was being worked on some years ago. The final position acknowledged Swinton as four laned between Lake Ida and 10th. However, the City's Traffic Element does not show Swinton as four-laned other than between the 2nd Streets . There are no projected needs for four-laning in the Traffic Element. The current City Commission has expressed a consensus to retain Swinton in its current capacity. The current City Commission has requested that a formal resolution be presented to them whereby they will request the County Commission to modify its planning documents to reflect the long term improvement of Swinton to be only as it is today. The context of Mr. Harden' s letter of May, 29th dealt with County Plan reflecting the City Commissions formal position at the time of designation of the laneage. I will obtain the documentation and provide it to Mrs . Fulton in a timely manner. DJK/dlm DJK/82/PROTECT.TXT • FOOD FOR THOUGHT RE: CRALLS EXEMPTION &P --raomc S-V22 MAY 10, 1991 ACCORDING TO DAVID KOVACS LAST NITE AT THE CRA MEETING, N.E. 4TH STREET, FROM SWINTON 'DO FEDERAL HYWY, DOES NOT NEED A CRALLS EXEMPTION. AS I UNDERSTOOD HIM, THIS STREET (AIL MEET REQUIRED LEVEL OF SERVICES, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT BEING APPLIED FOR IN THE GAE. THIS HAS BROUGHT TO MY MIND SEVERAL CONCERNS: 1 ) HOW WAS THIS DECISION ARRIVED AT? 2) WHAT TRAFFIC # ' S WERE USED, BASED ON WHAT SCENERIO? 3) WAS LAKE IDA "PLUGGED" IN AS A 4 LANE ROAD FROM MILITARY TO SWINTON? 4) WHAT IS THE LOS EXPECTED ON THIS 4 LANE ARTERY? 5) WAS A SCENERIO USED IN WHICH SWINTON WAS KEPT 2 LANED? 6) WAS SWINTON ASSUMED TO BE 4 LANED, THEREBY RELIEVING 4TH STREET? THERE HAS BEEN MUCH DEBATE ABOUT USING NE 4TH STREET TO GET TRAFFIC TO THE UNDER-USED FEDERAL. OR TO GET TRAFFIC TO 2ND AVE (PINEAPPLE GROVE) AS FAR AS I KNOW/ THIS DEBATE WAS STILL GOING ON . IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT IF THAT SCENERIO HAD BEEN USED IN DETERMING LOS, AND SWINTON KEPT A 2 LANE ROAD, NOT A THOROUGHFARE, THAT 4TH WOULD ALSO NOT MEET THE TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS. AND THEREFOR WOULD REQUIRE A CRALLS EXEMPTION. ,, BUT AS A LEARNED LAST NIGHT IT DOESN"T. IT CAN REMAIN A 2 LANE ROAD WITH NO PROBLEM. ok DOES THIS MEAN THAT CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE?/PDID I MISS THE RESULT OF THAT DEBATE? I AM MOST ANXIOUS TO UNDERSTAND WHY 4TH WOULD NOT NEED TO BE WIDENED?? • cr.!N 44; rpm ffs 11: iv 100 N.W. 1st AVENUE DLI RA BEACH FI_(JHIDA 33444 407/743-7000 May 29, 1991 Ann Fulton 1124 Vista Del Mar Delray Beach, FL 33444 Re: CRALLS & N.E. 4th Street Dear Ann: This letter is in response to the "food for thought" notes you provided earlier this month. In discussing the matter with David Y-- Kovacs, I concur with much of your logic. Before I respond to your specific questions, David has been reporting progress on the study as reported by the consultant team. This reporting should not be construed as his advocating a position. Also, all of the traffic analysis work to this date has involved only Test One ( 1996 projections) as the Test Two model is not yet available from the County. With respect to your expressed concerns, the following is provided: 1) How was this decision (N.E. 4th Street not needing a CRALLS) arrived at? The Traffic Consultant' s preliminary data showed traffic on N.E. 4th Street, east of 2nd Avenue at 10, 810 ADT which is at LOS D (adopted level of service) . Just east of Swinton Avenue the loading is at 13,768 ADT which just surpasses the LOS E threshold of 13,700 ADT. Based on this preliminary data, a CRALLS designation is not required. If this data is revised upwards, a CRALLS designation may be required. 2) What traffic #'s were used, based on what scenario? The (consultant 's) proposed development scenario is called the "Village Center" . It is a composite of the three scenarios discussed at the workshop held in the Old School Square Gym. The resulting traffic generation is provided in the above response to question #1 . THE EFFORT ALWAYS M AT FER S To: Ann Fulton Re: CRALLS & N.E. 4th Street Page 2 3) Was Lake Ida Road "plugged" in as a 4 lane road from Military Trail to Swinton Avenue? Yes . 4) What is the LOS expected on this 4 lane artery? Lake Ida Road is projected to function at LOS "C" in 1996 i .e. after it is improved and after significant development has occurred in the CBD. It is currently at LOS "E" . 5) Was a scenario used in which Swinton Avenue was kept 2 laned? No. The approach up to this point in the study has been to make projections of the traffic impact of the proposed scenario. Now that the impacts are projected, the alternative methods of either reducing impacts or providing improvements must be addressed. The exercise you suggestion is required as a part of the CRALLS application. 6) Was Swinton Avenue assumed to be 4 laned, thereby relieving N.E. 4th Street? Swinton Avenue was assumed to be 4 laned from Lake Ida Road to S .W. 10th Street as shown on the 2010 MPO Traffic Plan. That position reflects a posture taken by the City Commission a few years ago. As such, I presume that it would provide some degree of relief from N.E. 4th Street congestion in the Test One assessment. 7) Description of discussions about redirection of traffic along N.E. 4th Street to Federal Highway or Pineapple Grove Way and inquiry as to whether or not "certain assumptions" have been made. Your thoughts on the matter are accurate and appropriate. The situation .which you set forth is one which does need to be analyzed. In addition to the points ••which you have raised, we have questioned the traffic consultant' s methodology and projections for traffic on Swinton Avenue north of N.E. 4th Street. We are now taking special traffic , counts so that there is better data for this critical portion of the traffic analysis . Your "food for thought" is being digested by David and the consultants . At present we are scheduled to have the draft application, with the traffic report, available at the end of this week. The Planning and Zoning Board is to meet in session with the C.R.A. on Monday evening, June 3rd at which time both the proposed development scenario and the traffic report will be To: Ann Fulton Re: CRALLS & N.E. 4th Street Page 3 presented. If they are satisfied with the work, they should forward the application to the City Commission. If not, it will stay at the Board level . In any event, a status report is scheduled for the City Commission work session of June 4th. I trust that this letter is responsive to your inquiry. Sincerely, DAVID T. HARDEN, City Manager c: David Kovacs, Director of Planning and Zoning Greg Luttrell, City Traffic Engineer I. CY:Pl 1124CIi PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY 38 SOUTH SWINTON AVENUE DELRAY BEACH.FLORIDA 33444 May 10, 1991 (407)278-9565 Virginia Snyder West Palm Beach(407)734-3111 K.Wayne Campbell Fax(407)243-2635 -_71;e7 Li li t Ross S.Snyder Mayor Tom Lynch and City. Commissioners City Hall 100 N. W. First Avenue Delray Beach, FL 33444 Re : Swinton Avenue Dear Mayor Lynch and Commissioners : Please ask the County to allow Delray Beach to take over the owner- ship of Swinton Avenue. And please do everything to keep it from - being widened. It is the oldest street in town and has the oldest buildings . I believe there are at least 25 that are historically significant. We should capitalize on our history, not destroy it. Let ' s not let St. Augustine have all the historical fun! We were also partof "The Floridas , " acquired by the United States in 1821 under treaty with Spain. (Florida became a state in 1850 . ) The Town of Linton was subdivided in 1896 by William S . Linton. That was the year the first Florida East Coast Railway train arrived. In 1901 , six pioneers met in the one-room -school house on the corner of Swinton Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, that was built in 1896, and voted to change the name of the town from Linton to Delray. Three of the voters were from Delray, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, so they chose that name. - At that time, the town was still part of Dade County. Palm Beach County was formed on April 30, 1909 . How many of our residents know these or other historical facts about our town? Wouldn' t it be nice to have this information on historical markers erected along Swinton? The Sundy house was built in 1902 and our house (the Cathcart House) later the same year. The Methodist Church was organized in 1903 , Trinity Lutheran Church and St. Paul Episcopal Church in 1904, and the First Baptist Church in 1912. All are on Swinton Avenue. SINCE 1976 0 � 1 -2- Mayor and Commission Delray became a popular resort town, drawing tourists from the cold north to the mild climate and the beautiful beach. In the 1930s , there were eight hotels here . Now we have one hotel that is open year 'round and one that is open during "The Season. " We still have the mild climate and the beautiful beach. We can recapture the Village-by-the-Sea resort atmosphere, if we try. Swinton Avenue would play a key role in such an effort. But not if we widen it and continue to postpone beautification. Swinton was designated a secnic drive by the previous Commission. Four years ago , $100, 000 - a paltry sum -- was allocated to beautify the street. Unfortunately, that money was taken away from Swinton and included in the $1-million beautification project planned for Atlantic Avenue, east of the bridge ! Then we were promised $500, 000 from the Decade of Excellence bond money for beautification of Swinton. Now we have been told that that project has been postponed at least two years . During the 20 years that Ross and I have purchased and improved three houses on Swinton, we have waited for the City to see how important Swinton is and how it has been allowed to run down. Across the street , Gene and Janet Fisher have purchased and im- proved four houses . Down the street , Bob and Ann Fulton have bought and restored two houses . Up and down the street, others are doing the same thing since we first started trying to turn Swinton around. We and others have had faith that Swinton will some day be restored to its original status as a street where people love to live, where they areproud of their homes and show it . We do not want people speeding down Swinton. We would like to have people walking and driving slowly, admiring a; beautiful scenic/ historic drive, reading historical markers , learning about our City and its history. (The markers would reduce speeding!) At the south end of Swinton, they could stop to admire Pioneers ' Park and read the names of the pioneers who started it all . They could learn about native plants and trees from the information nut there for their enlightment. There would be benches under the shade trees where people could sit and relax. St. Petersburg has a Pioneers ' Park. Why can' t we? The Woman' s Club of Delray Beach has agreed to sponsor the project , although they have no money to contribute. The Club itself is an important part of the City' s history and should be recognized on a plaque in the park. 4 -3- Mayor and Commission In our Historic Arts District , residents will be discouraged from opening shops and/or offices in their homes along Swinton, if it is widened to four lanes . Many of the people will be forced to back out into traffic , which is against the law and a traffic hazard. Fronts of yards will be taken away, leaving less space for landscaping and forcing the residents to use what yard is left for parking. That will also make it difficult, if not impossible , for the homeowner to provide the required parking space for any shop or office . Wecan' t have it both ways . Either we want a beautiful scenic. drive that encourages more leisurely traffic , encourages people to open shops and offices , leaves them room to beautify their yards , or we want a speedway that causes homeowners to move out and become absentee landlords with the inevitable deterioriation of the neighborhood. There are 32 blocks between North 22nd Street and South 10th Street . Think of a street this long, with lovely landscaping, well-main- tained homes , here and there a shop or office , historic markers that tell the story of our town, and at the south end, the park . People would use the street, but those who were in a hurry would choose an alternate route, of which there are several . Let ' s encourage an atmosphere of smalltown neighborliness , a place where people will want to come on vacation -- and to live . If we do that, more peole will come downtown to shop . Let ' s encourage people to drive north and south on Federal Highway or Second Avenue, not jogging to Swinton, if we want them to come downtown. Let ' s encourage people to come from the west on Lake Ida Road and over to Second Avenue or Federal Highway, not widen Swinton, thus encouraging them to go south or north on Swinton and avoiding the downtown area . Let ' s initiate an Adopt-a-Tree program such as Boynton Beach has , giving trees to homeowners to plant in their front yards . Let ' s develop a city plant nursery so that there are plants available -- without purchasing them -- to fill in any bare space, any bare wall , or whatever needs to be brightened up . Finally, much of North Swinton has been resurfaced and storm drain- age has been installed by the County. Storm drainage is being in- stalled on South Swinton. The two blocks between the by-pass have been totally redone, complete with drainage, paving and new sidewalks -- but no landscaping! e -4- Mayor and Commission Again, please don' t let those of us on Swinton, who have invested so much time and money, be disappointed again by having the beautification postponed for another two years or longer . Sincerely, 6/7 . Virginia Snyder cc : Historical Preservation Board Delray Beach Historical Society Old School Square Cultural Arts Center Old School Square Property Owners Association Del Ida Neighborhood Association Lake Ida Property Owners Association Community Redevelopment Agency Downtown Development Authority Chamber of Commerce David Harden, City Manager PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM ` . Wrivt3 �T TO: ERT A. BARCINSKI , ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER,- __;_ __ ._ ✓--- ! ' A)-oUttiP- .. 4 . , . , . . '/ FROM: DAVID J. KOVACS, DIRECTOR 1-14:::.wv..t DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING DATE: AUGUST 20 , 1990 4uluat1 I SUBJECT: THE SWINTON AVENUE/S.W. 10TH STREET SWAP & OTHER ROAD MATTERS The following is an accounting of items discussed with representatives of the County Traffic Division at our meeting on August 16th, 1990. • Swinton Avenue/S.W. 10th Street Swap: The purpose of the City pursuing the "swap" is in order to have control with respect to the potential widening of Swinton Avenue. At present, Swinton Avenue is on the MPO 2010 Plan and the County Thoroughfare Plan and is shown ultimately to be a four lane facility. * A "swap" will not change the designation on the MPO 2010 Plan. That Plan dictates road improvement programming. To have Swinton Avenue removed requires a separate petitioning process through MPO. Since the Swinton Avenue corridor has interjurisdicational traffic ( i.e. a greater than local function) , it is anticipated that removal will not be easy ( if at all possible) . * While it may not be possible to remove Swinton Avenue from the MPO Plan, it may be possible to reduce right-of-way requirements to 60 ' instead of 80 ' . Again petitioning of MPO is required. A "constrained facilities" approach can be pursued. Note that the City' s position does accommodate a four lane section between Lake Ida Road and Atlantic Avenue. * While shown as a four lane facility in its ultimate state, there are no programmed improvements . * With respect to maintenance responsibilities , the City can enter an interlocal agreement with the County for maintenance responsibilities along Swinton Avenue. However, the County I. regulations for placement of landscaping will still apply. There are - significant cost implications in assuming such responsibilities . * There is no function of S.W. 10th Street as a County Thoroughfare in that it does not carry interjurisdictional traffic ; thus , there is no desire ( from the County) to assume jurisdiction . or maintenance responsibilities for it. J—ter, , I��`r Tirl" OLD SCHOOL SQUARE HISTORIC DISTRICT PROPERTY OWNERS Woman's Club of Delray Beach Elvera Beffa, Pres . 27 Abbey Lane Delray Beach, Fl 33446 Dear Ms . Beffa and Members, Our organization would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support in our efforts to save Swinton Avenue from further decay and from future 4-laning. Such sponsership of a Pioneer's Park was certainly a welcomed event. Such a park would lend credence to the significance of Swinton Avenue and would promote Delray' s history and founders by making them a part of Delray Beach's future. The Women' s Club of Delray Beach has demonstrated that you share the interest and enthusiasm of our property owners . Through such mutual efforts and support, we can succeed in re-making Swinton Avenue a Historic Scenic Drive that we can be proud of, and not a "County Collector" that will invite commuter traffic and destroy our efforts to revitilize this Historic District. As we have often relayed to our City Commission and the Community Redevelopment Agency, we hope to establish a "gateway" of fine older homes leading to Delray's Downtown Redevelopment . Thank you and your members for your sponsership of Pioneer's Park. We will certainly keep you informed of our attempts to get this project accepted by the City of Delray Beach. Sincerely, ,) Ann Fulton and Gene Fisher Co-Presidents cc: Delray Beach City Commission Walter Barry, City Manager Bill Finley, CRA Randy Whitfield, MPO C. Mayhew, HFB Old School Square Property Owners ��' �� PLACE ,CORPS 1124 Vista Del Mar Drive So. o. RPM Delray Beach, FL 33483 n w ANPJIVi,'. RY 4s 10 JAN co � J i r� •r. Clemmer Mayhew Historic Preservation Board Delray Beach City Hall 100 N. W. First Ate, Delray Beach, FL 33444 - - . • • • 61'0 z CITY OF DELRAY BEACH 100 N.W.1st AVENUE DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA 33444 305/243-7000 TO: Mayor City Commission City Manager FROM: Historic Preservation Board City of Delray Beach DATE: September 15, 1988 RE: Historic Swinton Avenue The Historic Preservation Board encourages the City Commission to designate Swinton Avenue from St. Paul's Episcopal (Beginning of Historic District and early Town Border) to the Unity Church a Scenic Drive, and begin Beautifcation projects to be coordinated through the Community Improvement Bureau. Named after Delray Beach's most prominent early military commander Col. David Swinton from Linton, Michigan, Swinton Avenue provides the axis between East and West, the Cross Roads of Town intersecting with Atlantic Avenue at its Center, and the setting for Delray Beach's oldest residences, sites, residences, schools, churches, and the new Cultural Arts Center for South Palm Beach County. Swinton Avenue's inventory consists of: Historic Sundy Residence 1902 St. Paul's Episcopal 1935 c. Cathcart residence 1907 c. "The Parsonage" 1905 c. Linton Family Residence Site 1895 (Demolished) Old School Square Cultural Center 1912/1926/1928 Gearheat House 1924 The Long Residence 1924 The Rhoden Building 1912 The "Fisher" Cottages 1935 Cason Cottage 1915 c. Cason Memorial Methodist Church Trinity Lutheran Church Del-Ida Park Historic District 704 North Swinton Avenue 1924 The Love Residence 1937 c. The DeWitt Residence 1935 c. Sundy/Clint Moore/Gringle Residence 1924 Seward Webb Residence 1915 c. Church of The Palms Unity Church Pruyser Plantation House 1931 c. THE EFFORT ALWAYS MATTERS 1 Page 2 Also: Numerous fine examples of Craftsman Cottages, Mediterranean Revival Homes, Florida Vernacular cottages remain in settings landscapped in tone with Early Florida Settings. Architect Sam Ogren, Sr. 's first structure at 704 North Swinton Avenue is a highlight of Delray's only street in which there are architectural examples from 1902 to the present time. The dimension, scale, proportions of this street must be protected creating a closeness of community and neighborhood. Beautification plans should stress, intimacy, shade, and slowing the velocity of automobiles to encourage the appreciation of the community's heritage. The purpose, intent, and function of the inner city was never to accomodate road widening, but to deepen the values of community of why residences want to live in close proximity to churches, schools, beaches, shopping, family and friends. Thank you. cc: Lula Butler, Director fo Community Improvement Dorothy Ellington, Community Development CLEMMER MAYHEW III • REALTOR 76 FIFTH AVENUE,S.E. 4 EALTOP• DELRAY BEACH, FL. 33444 (305)272-8458 page two Sundy/ Clint Moore/Gringle Residence 1924 Seward Webb Residence 1915 c. Church of The Palms Unity Church Pruyser Planta`ion House 1931 c. Also: Numerous fine examples of Craftsman Cottages , Mediterranean Revival Homes, Florida Vernacular cottages remain in settings landscapped in tone with Early Florida Settings. Architect Sam Ogren,Sr. ' s first structure at 704 North Swinton Avenue is a highlight of Delray' s only stret in which there are architectural examples from 1902 to the present time . The dimension, scale, proportions of this stret must be protected iit. yrdernItio create5tbe closeness of community and neighborhood . Beautification plans should stress, intimacy, shade, and slowing the velocity of automobiles to encourage the appreciation of the community' s heritage. The purpcse, intent, and function of the inner city was never to accomodate road widening, but to deepen the values of community of why residences want to live in close proximity to churches, schools , family and friends , beaches, and shopping � 4(t4-4-1 The Historic Preservation Board encourages the City Q Commission to designate Swinton Avenue from St. Paul 's Episcopal 1-69..„,_ (Beginning of Historic District and early Town Border) to the Unity Church a Scenic Drive, and begin Beautification projects to be coordinated through the Community Improvement Bur iau. 70.„„)"-,4er CLEMMER MAYHEW III • REALTOR ' 76 FIFTH AVENUE,S.E. R"EA.-OR' DELRAY BEACH, FL. 33444 (305)272-8458 To: Mayor City Commission City Manager From: Historic Preservation Board City of Delray Beach RE: HISTORIC SWINTON AVENUE ANamed after Delray Beach's most prominent early military commander Col. David Swinton from Linton, Michigan, Swinton Avenue provides the axis between East and West, the CrossRoads of Town intersecting with Atlantic Avenue at its Center, A and the setting for Delray Beach's oldest residences , sites , residences, schools, churches, and the new Cultural Arts Center for South Palm Beach County. Swinton Avenue 's inventory consists of: Historic Sundy Residence 1902 St . Paul 's Episcopal 1935 c. Cathcart residence 1907 c. "The Parsonage" 1905c. Linton Family Residence Site 1895(Demolised) Old School Square Cultural Center 1912/1926/1928 Gearhart House 1924 The Long Residence 1924 The Rhoden Building 1912 The "Fisher"Cottages 1935 Cason Cottage 1915 c. Cason Memorial Methodist Church 7 Trinity Lutheran Church Del-Ida Park Historic District 70 1 N . 5 cu 1 vL tov. /,a `� The Love Residence 1937 c. The DeWitt Residence 1935c. C ITS OF DELRAM BEACH _ :_ 100 N.W.1st AVENUE DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA 33444 305/243-7000 TO: Mr. Walter Barry, City Manager FROM: Clemmer Mayhew III, Vice Chairman Historic Preservation Board DATE: August 24, 1988 Please find attached a request to make Swinton Avenue a Senic Drive by proclamation. cc: Mayor Doak S. Campbell City Commission T 1C PCC(lpT A I Intl A\i C` I\/1 I M fl C SCENIC SWINTON The Old School Square Historic District was once the town ' s most prominent, most valuable, and most scenic. Creating a walking streetscape with landscaped medians, the original sidewalks, and utilities placed in the rear alleys would do much to restore the integrity of the area, and lift the resident ' s faith in their neighborhood. The sidewalk erosion and loss of public safety has left Scenic Swinton ' s street empty except for the velocity and chaos of expressway traffic. The Sundy Family joins me in askingt for your leadership in undoing the engineering nighmare caused by the unnecessary widening of Historic Swinton Avenue by declaring Swinton Avenue from St.Paul ' s Episcopal to Unity Church a Scenic Drive thereby creating the certainty for the residents and community to beautify and enjoy the Avenue . The Churches, Schools, and residents deserve to be free of the collective fear which has swept US-1 , Atlantic Avenue, Congress Avenue, and other widened thoroughfares. Motorists should slow and appreciate the future YOU and THE COMMISSION have created for the' buildings of the past and work with the residents who want to make their future in the Heart of Delray Beach to be shared with the entire community. Thank You Clemmer Mayhew, III ars �1 �jY 0 :I�• .; ' .i`6• • ,EMI'* .cl j1`i3.'or ;ri"MMi'ir�'. �ry �,=' i.. `it- • ,s ''' i' ,- • .f�." ' f'.ap Sr�M' t .f 4 4761a_-mot' �" '` •, '�-.ert • J�+,,},45 ,,`'�" 7. S,,.',t ,. Preservation News. VIEWPOINT - gar.s 0 ,• { l' \S -- . ---:ri, -11-.,/ -� 0- o"� r �n rrmiI . ;:.4 .n - r 40 ;r7 ,- _ tyAer . I CI 4. I va � \A :: 1 t '� ?Y a� : � ��! ,•ici I]� �f$. / .rrr1Ui� �� l _ on..• or4QaeoB cp► 0a W" ❑5,coo aeB0nep stn p.SF 6- ee, adB pes 01 .0 't:.11.t<e 41' rsa a c 0 g%e% W6 elas...ctl - ` '', .:.- 7,..1...) e.1-,VY_Web g g go 0 mi)n t\t, cri-Ati- t-�� ®® e i_, '-' �P'' g O DG Wel.4%,\V&I'-'- %), r - , � gage ®_ a _ ,,,t 1�v.- -1,,..„-4.;/ 1--09_ gd r ,', 0' .' F1-47PS AU"1 v'l 5 PAV. t4 \\-1,04‘%:hcr. PI 47' 4'60-r 7 d a i,- cii,,ei gm .--- ,,c\ 1,Thu%14 T-a\ft\\.:. A. .f:,- THE LAND OF THE 44-LANE HIGHWAY By Russell Baker that building better roads doesn't work. NEW YORK—Sen. Daniel Patrick It just uses up the continent that much Moynihan, whose public duties include faster. trying to save the country from comingto But everybody, .Wef okeep on doings realizeit a complete standstill, says that by te that it doesn't work. keep it anyhow.For one thing,building highways year 2020 Interstate 95 will have to be 44s lanes wide to carry the traffic between doingsn what he'sw do good at,; even everybodyo likes Ft. Lauderdale and Miami, what even though it "Pretty soon there won't be anything leads to a terrible mess. So we tacitly consent to being duped. left of Florida,"he says. It's hard to weep about We know the better roads being promised there's almost nothing ng left thato becauseaa will relieve the traffic jam only briefly already. Whatever that thing is that's before tdeuboad its intensity,an y,but we elect spreading down there may be interesting, the better-roads ticket anyhow. or fun, or beloved by those sitting in its For a rouble aofu yeofs tee onaffiu getn air-conditioned condos and traffic jams, even worse because of the construction but Florida it isn't. work.Finally comes the year when traffic Florida was still mostly there in the flows contentedly. But what is this? sur- 1940s, You and there was even a good bit of it You have just discovered yourself remaining in the 1960s, but now there's rounded by vast, raw clots of housing For- hardly enough Florida leftu to fillw a glass development named Greenery Glen,display case in the Smithsonian. Robert ested Fantasy and Wistful Woods. Day Frost once said it doesn't takeonia man long hafter that the new jam-free, eight-lane to use up a continent.The consumption of Bypass. is jammed halfway' y ?to Time toopolte Florida shows he can do it practically Bypass.Furious,aren't s ticket. vote overnight if the territory is humid and for the new better-roads sandy and its winters are milder than So we head inexorably toward the Cleveland's. 44-lane highway,cheered on by the incan- ruminations about the du- tation of real estate developers and as- Moynihan'sbious future down there are evoked by his causephast growthtycoon andN usedevelopment can bee interest in developing new forms of trans- stopped, and anyhowitgd cannot . portation.A member of the Senate Public and wh it's good developmentr you. Works Committee,he is trying to stir up Why can't experience, and gr wh n interest in experimental magnetic-levita- stopped?evelop In my expour taxes,growth and tion vehicles. development raise your make a This is hard going because the govern- shameful mess on the countryside and influ- ment is committed to sticking with cars encedisperse city living from' the civilizing com- and airplanes to the bitter end.Forty-four munities of that to their new lanes of traffic on I-95. Meantime, why bind their victims to money experimenting-95. in Buck lifetimes of driving and offer so few re- spendRogers stuff like magnetic-levitation ve- wards that a a tropheown of the TV set hides?Star Wars,yes;traffic solutions,no. becomes a catastrophe. The American traffic solution is to Aped i somebody th dreadfultcan surely be t. widen the road.This is happeningall over stopped if puts a mind to it. the once-beautiful farmland of th Middle reAnd osf the countryu certainly should before the as Atlantic states. Dirt roads barelywide Florida.t the is as disappeared as enough for two cars to pass nervously are Fld beingY It would be good if candidates George paved with two broad lanes. Two- Bush and Michael Dukakis tried to create lane roads are swelling to four lanes with some pressure to save a little of the coun- median strips,and four-lane divided high- try from burial under the 44-lane highway. ways are being widened to eight lanes. A proposal or two for saving a little bit of The result is always the same. Better America for another day would certainly be roads lure more people to settle alongside more invigorating than the tired old cam- them,bringing more cars,which jam the paign roads. This angers the people in p !m gas an,the withhe magic emitting son,far. the traffic jams,who elect new politicians Moynihan, isand levitation, isat promising to solve the trafficproblem byleast trying. Dukakis Bush should building better roads. study his lead.They both need levitating. This cycle of destruction has been con- PN tinual since World War Ij. You'd think somebody would have realized bynow a phi Copyright©by the New York Times Company. Repi-inted'by permission. CiJ _.(96ferizta, .2.4a.P* PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY 38 SOUTH SWINTON AVENUE DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA 33444 . �� August 14, 1988 (305)278-9565 Virginia Snyder West Palm Beach 734 311 1 Ross S.Snyder vat al td, K.Wayne Campbell Victoria L.Garrone Mayor and City Commissioners Delray Beach City Hall 100 Northwest First Avenue Delray Beach, Florida 33444 Re : Swinton Avenue Dear Mayor and Commissioners : Swinton Avenue was originally one of the target beautification projects but was removed from the budget because of the MPO' s proposed widening of the street years hence. As I understand it, the money that would have been used for Swinton was then divided among the other projects . Please re- store the money for the project and work with the County to cancel plans for widening this historic street. The widening of Swinton would be a disaster for many homeowners who do not have room for off-street parking. Many of these lots are only 50 feet wide. Front yards would have to be paved so cars could be pulled in toward the fronts of these houses , requiring them to back out into traffic on a four-lane highway. Trees and plantings that are now in place would be destroyed and we would be left with bare paving such as we now have in the two blocks between North First Street and South First Street. As you can see, on the east side of the street , across from our property, the cars are forced to back out into the busy street since off-street parking was eliminated. Please let' s work to retain thd 'street as a' two-lane street, but improve and beautify it . Let ' s maintain the character of this old street as a scenic drive to complement the Old School Square . If the City and County would work together to beautify and up- grade the street and houses along it, we could stop the deterior- iation that is gradually destroying what used to be a neighbor- hood street. -2- The oldest houses in Delray Beach are located along Swinton Avenue. The hub of the city was/is Swinton and Atlantic Avenue. Let' s beautify in both directions , not just east and west. I would like to have an opportunity at the next Commission meeting, August 22, 1988, to speak to this issue. Thanks . Sincerely, • Virginia Snyder cc: City Manager Walter Barry Palm Beach County Commission Palm Beach County Engineer Delray Beach City Engineer Randy Whitfield, MPO Delray Beach Historic Preservation Board Old School Square Property Owners Assoc. Lake Ida Property Owners Association Del Ida Property Owners Association Pineapple Grove Property Owners Association -` #4''.. 8✓.5A'+ >: a. x f ; i zC �-6``f „ q 't,,'� {& � 4:Z.::: e - li - ti : is 1; i l+ : ,4 e » S} ?,: �..r .e'; 4', t.,$:9 c..C 6 i". ,z The Orange Grove House of Refuge No. 3 By GILBERT L. Voss This paper was delivered at Delray Beach, Florida, February 18, 1968, as an address at the dedication of a bronze plaque that marks the site where formerly stood the Orange Grove -> - House of Refuge No. 3. It has been somewhat amended and certain additions have been made to the original text. I am s ,ys indebted to my aunt Mrs.Charles TV. Pierce of Boynton Beach, R ;- Florida, for the opportunity to examine certain manuscripts , ..1 written by my late uncle,referring to the building of the station. - L If we were gathered where we are now in the year 1873 a very different ' 7,4 4 cene would lie before us. Instead of standing by a busy highway with _ t i; p sing cars, amidst hotels and villas, we would be surrounded by a dense 41 ,. man hammock with tall banyans, gumbo-limbos, and sea grapes, beach * fzass and open sand with not a sign of man or his works. Looking out, w 7., 2 i':ok•ever, across the beach to the ocean we might see, instead of passing oil tankers and cruise ships, the tall spars and sails of-a square rigger or the -. ` t ;Ain,-masts and stacks of a Morgan,Ward, or Mallory Line steamer. 5s Now were we to stand on,the deck of one of these vessels looking ' shoreward, we would see a long curving line of breakers dashing upon a a: ?olden sand beach backed by a long, low, line of forest or jungle as far as ,,, &eye could see. And on that beach there would not be a house, a jetty '4'"' protected inlet, or any sign to indicate that any' other than Indians lived ' there. In fact, from Cape Canaveral to KeyBiscayne, the onlyinterruptions `'''- 44 p j i P u that green wilderness would be the tall, slender, red tower of Jupiter Light •'- i the shorter white brick structure of Cape Florida Lighthouse at the ` Ri.rance to Biscayne Bay. 3 j ems,. a� 'ee'', "A 4 -* b :r i - '. ,4 TEQUESTA GILBERT L . VOSS 5 If you didn't care for ocean travel in the first place or were of a nervous 1 The entire coast was windswept and throughout most of the year infested nature, you might well wonder what would happen to you on that desolate with mosquitoes in numbers only remembered by the older inhabitants. stretch of coast if by chance your ship was cast onto the reefs through storms North of Jupiter the coast was, if anything, even worse. Fresh water was or faulty navigation. Where would you get help, food, water, shelter and difficult to obtain on the east side of Indian River and most of the settlements final rescue? were on the mainland side. Shipwrecked men could have a fearful time in the midst of what later has been termed a sub-tropical Paradise. There was And well you might wonder, for this beautiful stretch of the Straits of desperate need for rescue facilities. Florida was a veritable graveyard of ships. In 1825 no less than sixty-four vessels were wrecked on the southeast Florida coast.' With increased shipping The problem was brought to a head during the hurricane of October, %> in and out of the Gulf ports the toll rose. Between the years 1848 and 1857, 1873, when a vessel was wrecked about half way between Biscayne Bay and 499 ships valued at over 16 million dollarsa were disposed of by libel at New River. The ship was a total loss but all the crew reached the supposed Key West. The crews, cargoes and passengers were rescued by the industry safety of the beach. There was no food, however, and the only drinking of the Key West wreckers. Licensed by the government as Master Wreckers, water was brackish in the salt marsh back of the beach ridge. these men belonged to an honorable profession maligned by romantic writers who depicted them as lurking behind the reefs luring innocent ships to their For the first two days they lived off fish washed up by the seas of the doom with false lights and other means. storm but a few days later when they were found by a man who had walked At first there were not even any lighthouses. Although the Spaniards e up the beach from Biscayne Bay, the half-starved crew were existing on probably had one at St. Augustine, the first United States light was built spoiled fish. there in 1824, followed by one at Key West in 1825. Cape Florida light The story of their hardships and near death was told in the New York went into operation in December, 1825. But all these lights were far apart papers and when this was brought to the attention of the government, Sumner and unpredictable and left an immense area of unlighted, dangerous coast. Jupiter Light was first lighted in 1857 and Fowey Rocks replaced Cape I. Kimball, Superintendent of the Life Saving Service,ordered the immediate Florida in 1878. Hillsborough Lights, the most powerful in the U.S. Coast construction of five "houses of refuge" for shipwrecked people on the east coast of Florida. Guard system with originally 5,500,000 candle power, was not established until 1907.3 1 These houses of refuge would not be life saving stations with fully But what happened to the seaman when his ship went ashore on this manned life boats to go out to ships, but lonely human outposts to which inhospitable coast? In the 1860s and 1870s the entire area was a wilderness: jailors could make their way to be assured of shelter, food and clothing all About a dozen people lived in a small community on Biscayne Bay around under the care of the single keeper. the mouth of the Miami River and at what is now Coconut Grove. On New River at Fort Lauderdale, no one was living at that time, and not another By an Act of Congress dated June 20, 1874, this concept was put into i soul could be encountered until one reached Lake Worth. Prior to the mid force calling for the establishment of five Houses of Refuge to be located as 1870s, indeed, even here there was only one man to be found, Charlie Moore, follows: "about 18 miles north of the Indian River Inlet, a house of refuge; an ex-sailor and beachcomber, living near the site of present Palm Beach. Gilbert's Bar, a house of,refuge; near Orange Grove, a house of refuge; Permanent dwellers were first found at Jupiter, consisting of the head keeper between Hillsborough and New River Inlet, a house of refuge; about ter, I of the light,his two assistants and their families. miles south of New River Inlet,a house of refuge:'6 i Adamson,Hans Christian,Keepers of the Lights,Greenberg,1955. i 'Pierce, Charles W., Manuscript memoirs. a Shepard,Birsc,Lore of the Wreckers,Beacon Press,1961. 6Anonymous, 1884. Revised Regulations for the Government of the Life-Saving Service a Adamson, H. C. op. cit. (1955). o/the United States and the Laws upon whkh they are based. Gov. Printing Office. r I I .0 Tit`a-,*Flit;r: '6 TEQUESTA GILBERT L . VOSS 7 ' t sr a interior pineland. The swamp was full of herons; Louisianas, little blues, These houses, unique to the Florida coast, were numbered from one to whites, and egrets, purple grackles, red-winged blackbirds and marsh hens five, beginning with Bethel Creek Station No. 1 and ending at Biscayne La)' perching grass, arrow-root and lily pads. Station No. 5. Among the early settlers they were called usually by their n11 wadingor erchin about in the saw There were also a number of alligators. The ridge itself was covered with • number. The construction contract was given to Mr. Albert Blaisdall° and i construction began in 1875. That little time was spent in erecting the houses 1 mastic, banyans, gumbo-limbos, sea grapes and cocoplums. When the sea is attested to by the fact that the Orange Grove House of Refuge No. 3 wa., 4 grapes and cocoplums were ripe, or when the turtles were crawling, the bears finished and ready for occupancy in April, 1876. The name "Orange Grove" mine out to the beach to eat grapes or dig for turtle eggs. Panthers were was derived from an old sour orange grove near the site of the station. common and there were numerous wildcats and racoons. Deer and turkey were easily shot. And not far away were the "Caves," nearly destroyed today, Possibly the earliest reference to the area is to be found in an account of a skirmish with Indians at the "orange grove haulover" just to the south where in earlier times beach walkers hid from the Indians by day and the during the Indian wars.7 mailman took shelter in before the building of the Station.l' i t The Orange Grove Station was situated about a quarter of a mile north These caves were west of the ocean ridge, surrounded by hammock of the grove and on the flat east of the regular beach ridge.' It was a wooden growth, and facing westward. The larger one was about 20 by 20 feet, high frame house of clapboard siding, roughly rectangular in shape, with a broad f enough for a grown man to stand upright in, and had a large squarish stone on one side, often used as a table. The other cave opened into the main one porch or verandah running entirely around it. The broad roof sloped down overhanging the porch, keeping it and the house reasonably cool in the by a crawl way and was pitch black inside. Even in the hottest summer day summer. The ground floor consisted of four large rooms in which the the caves were cool. They were located near the present site of Briney Breezes keeper lived with his family. Upstairs there was a single large airy room, Trailer Park and I believe were partially destroyed during recent road with several large windows, equipped with cots and bedding for twenty men, building. John IIollman who carried the mail from St. Augustine to the Bay clothing, and staple dried provisions and salted meats. All these were kept • during the Civil War used the cave for overnight stops and as a hideout. Local t i tradition claimed a pirate treasure was buried under the great slab but no one scaled for use only by shipwreck victims. In addition, there were several medicine chests equally sealed and portable chests of books. was ever able to move the stone. / The Station was finished in April, 1876, and in May of that year the In an adjacent building were the Station's two life boats, one a large, surfboat requiring about five men to man and a smaller two-man boat. f first keeper of the station moved his family to the house and assumed his There were also tackle for setting up breeches buoys to bring men ashore duties, being paid the munificent sum of $400 per year. This was my grand- from stranded wrecks, and signalling flares. The life saving manual was veryfather, Capt. H. D. Pierce. He was accompanied by his wife Margretta and explicit about the care of this equipment: the need for airing bedding and their only son, Charles. _ clothing, the inspection of the salt pork, preservation of the medicine chests,etc.°'1° Grandfather was born November 16, 1834, in Fayette, Maine, and at the early age of 16 he ran away to sea as so many boys of that era and Behind the Station lay the ocean ridge behind which the ground sloped state had done before him. He sailed in Donald McKay clipper ships and down to the marsh or swamp that extended for a mile or two towards the 1 made one famous run aboard the Black Bailer James Baines from Land's End, England, to Melbourne, Australia, in the fastest time ever made by a a Swarthout,Zola.Miami Herald,Monday,June 11,1956. z sailing vessel. In Australia he went into the gold fields but without luck and 7 Sprague, John T. The Origin,Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War. D. Apple- • soon was back to sea again. He made at least one whaling trip into the ton & Co., 1848. e Pierce, Charles W. op. tit. South Seas. Later he was first mate on a schooner, the Three Charlies, on a Henshall,James A.Camping and Hunting in Florida.Robert Clarke&Co.,1884. "Voss, Lillie Elder Pierce, Manuscripts. so Anonymous, op. cit. (1884) fy 1 } • 8 TEQUESTA \' GILBERT L . VOSS 9 the Great Lakes. This vessel was driven ashore in a violent storm onto the their house burned down and with it many of grandmother's belongings.inns. In breakwater off Waukegan, Illinois. The crew was rescued by the townspeople i the midst of despair, a sailboat anchored off the beach and a man waded without loss of life and quartered in various homes until other arrangements I a,hore. It was Captain Armour, head keeper of Jupiter Lighthouse. There could be made. Grandfather was sent to the home of Mr. James Moore where was need of a new assistant keeper at Jupiter Light and Capt. Armour had he met my grandmother, Margretta, and shortly after married her. 'ailed up to see if grandfather would take the position. In 1872 the family, • probably with a sigh of relief,moved into the assistant keeper's house. When the Civil W4r began, he and his brother-in-law, Will Moore, joined the Federal Army and fought throughout the war in the 17th Illinois It was here that grandmother got her first sewing machine, which came Cavalry. Afterwards, he and grandmother moved to Chicago and it was 1 drifting up the Loxahatchee River in its packing crate from a wreck ashore there that Will Moore persuaded them to move to Florida. Uncle Will had on the beach. Father pulled it ashore almost from under the hand of an been there only the year before near Jacksonville, sent south by his doctor Indian who was also salvaging flotsam from the wreck. to recover from tuberculosis. But the Pierces had come to homestead a new home in Florida and Once the decision 4ras made, grandfather and Uncle Will found and • from the light grandfather could see to the south towards Lake Worth from bought a 28-ft. sloop, the Fairy Belle, outfitted it completely, and had it on which he heard such wonderful reports. There was even a large tropical the stocks in a boatyarcit in Chicago when the Great Fire broke out one island in the south end. It had no name but it sounded ideal. So, in October, evening in October, 1871. At first the Pierce's home was endangered but the 1873, the Pierces packed their things into one of the lifeboats from the wind shifted and the fire passed only a block away, swept on to the water- steamer Victor from which the sewing machine had come, and with their front, and burned down everything except the Fairy Belle which they found skiff in tow set out. On the way they were met by the October hurricane • the next day sitting in the midst of ruin, miraculously unharmed. which resulted in the building of the house of refuge. This storm they passed under the overturned rowboat which Grandfather shifted as the wind Even though they mere not prepared for so early a start, the Pierces, changed, to keep the bow pointed upwind. Finally, they reached Lake Worth grandfather, grandmother, their young son Charles, and Uncle Will hastily and the unnamed island. It was eventually named Hypoluxo by Mrs. Pierce finished their outfitting and left for' who got the name from an Indian who said it meant: "Big water all around, Flbrida. That winter they were frozen in on the river and lived aboard the Fairy Belle until the Spring thaw. In the $ no can get out." And so Hypoluxo, the oldest settlement on Lake Worth, Spring they reached New Orleans and came out onto the Gulf. When they first got its name 12 reached Cedar Keys the sold the Fairy Belle to a local boat builder who wanted to use her as a model because of her fine lines. She brought one The Pierce house was built of heavy ship's timbers for corner posts, the siding from ship's planking, all gathered from the beach; the shingles were hundred and sixty dollars, just one hundred dollars more than they had paid for her in Chicago. rived on the beach from ranging timbers and smoothed down by hand with a drawshave. The ceiling came from the nearest saw mill at Daytona Beach From Cedar Keys they came across to Jacksonville on David Yulee's ` from timber carried up by boat, milled and returned, a round trip of about Florida Railroad. Here, Will Moore remained for some time practising his three or four weeks. This house is still standing on Hypoluxo Island as part trade of tinsmith. But the Pierce's destination was Indian River and they 1 of the servant's quarters on the former Col. Jacques Balsan estate, now a boarded a steamer at Jacksonville and went down the St. John's River to its country club. headwaters at Enterprise and from there by oxcart to Titusville on the lower , part of the Indian River. Here they took up a homestead at Ankona Heights. The first year was hard work. Land had to be cleared and planted, but They arrived in the middle of the summer to be met by the greatest hordes i it was rich and crops were good. At that time, of Bourse, there was no of mosquitoes imaginabe. Life was intolerable. To add to their troubles, I „Voss, Lillie Elder Pierce, op. cit. 1 1 1 1 °` . . 10 TEQUESTA GILBERT L . VOSS 11 place to sell them. The house had to be built. The Pierces, like all pioneers, l:tpervision of the keeper of the Station, man the surfboats and breeches lived off the land; what they could grow, game that they shot, and of courw- buoys to assist their fellow crewmen off the wreck. ' the treasures cast up on the beach. The beach often was their store and it w•a, worked hard. Lumber was salvaged, barrels of food, cans of butter, kegs of Mrs. Pierce never really liked the Station. She loved their island home wine, olives packed in oil, all found their way to the beach eventually, but and missed their few neighbors. The only visitors at the Orange Grove were there was little or no way to earn hard cash. And even there it was needed the occasional inspections by House of Refuge Superintendent Champ desperately. Life on Hypoluxo Island in the first few years was very difficult Spencer, infrequent beach travellers and passing small boats. Other visitors indeed. were the Indians; they came walking up the hammock trail from their Ihunting grounds to the westward or passed, during good weather, in their Just at this time word came to the Island that a house was being built ,anoes on their way up or down the beach. . near the orange grove by workmen put ashore by a schooner. Capt. Pierce went down at once to learn what was going on and met the superintendent of 1 There was no inlet then at Boynton Beach. Instead there was a narrow construction, Lieutenant Travis of the Revenue Marine Service and the sub. i trip of land between the lake and the ocean known as Lake Worth Haulover, contractor, Gates, who happened to be a fellow State-of-Mainer. Grandfather ;there, since the Lake ended there, the Indians hauled their canoes over into . made application for the job, was accepted, and moved his family into the the ocean. Only a short distance below the station was the Orange Grove station in May, 1876. Ilaulover where the canoes were again dragged into the narrow reaches of the river which formerly opened into the ocean at Boca Ratones, now Boca As keeper of Station No. 3, Capt. Pierce had certain duties to attend Raton Inlet, then closed. to. Each day he had to fill out the daily weather log, note the number of ships that passed by and, according to the written instructions in the manual: On August 15, 1876, only three, months after coming to the Station, the "Keepers of Houses of Refuge will be expected to reside at their stations Pierce's only daughter was born, Lillie Elder Pierce, the first white girl with their families, throughout the year, and immediately after storms they born between Jupiter and the Bay. Mother grew up on the Lake with only a will go personally, and send such members of their families as are available, brief tour at Station No. 5 at Biscayne Bay and probably looked like an along the shore in both direction's, to as great a distance as practicable, with Indian. She sailed her skiff like a boy, carried her own shotgun on her trips a view to ascertaining if any shipwreck has occurred, and of finding and through the hammocks alone with her dog, and played the violin with her succoring any persons that may have been cast ashore."la brother. Later she married a blond young State-of-Mainer, Frederick Christian Voss, and lived most of her life in Hypoluxo. She passed away only a few The Station was equipped with some rather odd things. The clothing months ago (September 14, 1967) in Delray not far from the House of was mainly heavy winter gear better suited to Hatteras or New Jersey in the Refuge Station No. 3 where she was born 91 years ago. - . winter than the usual Florida climate, and Capt. Pierce groaned at the thought of ever launching one of the life boats. The big one would have There was a little excitement for Mrs. Pierce. One day while Grandfather taken every able-bodied man on the Lake to launch and pull it, and the was gone up to the Lake, two tall, turbanned Indians carrying rifles and with Lake was twenty-seven miles long and five miles away from the Station at murderous-looking hunting knives in their beaded belts, stalked silently up its closest point. In fact, until then the only time all five men on the Lake to the house where Grandmother sat on the porch. had gotten together was in the national elections to cast their ballots in the palmetto hat of Polls Inspector H. D. Pierce at Hypoluxo 14 Apparently the "Where's Pierce?" asked the leader. Grandmother replied that he had idea was that if some of the crew got ashore safely they could, under the gone to the Lake and would be back shortly. Nervously she pulled her 3a Anonymous, op. cif. (1834) brightly colored wool shawl about her shoulders for she recognized the Indian 14 Douglas,Marjorie Stoneman,Florida;the Long Frontier,1967. as one who had been implicated in the murder of a white settler a few years . f» i'- 'L . 12 TEQUESTA GILBERT L . VOSS 13 before.Grandmother was used to Indians, indeed an Indian midwife had been young girl, Mother described a typical evening.15 Before dusk, all chores were with her mother whe she was born at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, November done up and everyone went inside to stay until morning. Screens kept much 11, 1840, and she h d been raised around them. But she was terrified when of the insects out but on bad evenings the lamps were not even lighted. Mostly the Indian drew his uge knife from his belt, advanced on her, and laid thft the family sat around talking quietly or singing songs. Grandfather had a knife blade on her sh ulder against her neck. tremendous deep bass voice and Grandmother a clear light one. Favorite tunes were "Irish Molly, Oh," "Within a mile of Edinburgh Town," "Sweet "Where you get?" he asked. Afton," "Oh, Willy, we have missed you," "Sweet Belle Mahone," "Nellie Cray," or Moody and Sankey hymns. Grandfather's favorite songs were With quaking heart she realized that he intended no injury but was "Prom Greenland's Icy Mountains" or the old sea.chanty "High Barbaree." inquiring about the shawl because he wanted one like it for a turban. When It didn't take much for entertainment in those days. she told him that she had gotten it in Titusville he regarded her for a . moment, thrust his knife into his belt, said "Tell Pierce I come back" and Thirteen months of Station No. 3 and Mrs. Pierce declared she wanted stalked away. to go back to Hypoluxo Island. Their house was there, their boats, gardens and grandmother's brother. Superintendent Spencer had to find a replacement On another ocea ion, Grandfather was building one of the large wooden which he did in the form of a young twenty-one year old Londoner, Stephen "safes" or screened c pboards used for keeping food away from the flies and Il, Andrews. Steve, as he was called, had only recently come to the States in cool when some Indi ns came up and watched him hammering away. Finally the company of Charles Peacock who was Iured to Florida by the exciting curiosity got the bett r of the younger one and he asked, "What you make?" letters of his brother Jack Peacock of Biscayne Bay fame10 Steve was then - a bachelor and moved into the Station in late June, 1877. Grandfather stopped long enough to indicate the baby on the porch and said "I'm making a cage to put my squaw and pickininy in." The Indian Steve lived alone at the Station and was a great favorite with the early looked at the baby, the safe, and Grandfather with his big black beard and settlers on the Lake. But he was not a bachelor long. In 1879 Mr. Hubble said, "Pierce, you heap big liar," and walked away. and family moved down from Michigan and built a home at what is now Boynton Beach, right at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and the ocean The "safe"was permanent and well-used part pf our kitchen furniture boulevard 17 The Hubbies had two daughters, Mahalie and Anne, and when at home in Hypolux until the house was sold a few years ago. Grandfather the lIubbles gave up a year later and moved back to Michigan young Steve liked the Seminoles a d was great friends with them. followed shortly thereafter with the avowed intention of marrying Mahalie. Somewhat to the surprise of the other families on the Lake, when he returned, Insects were ind ed a problem, mostly mosquitoes. Even when I was a 1(rs. Andrews turned out to be the other sister, Annie. Eventually Steve and little boy in Hypolu o each house had a mosquito smudge in front of the Annie inherited the Hubble homestead but sold it in 1895 to Major Boynton, door, often of coconut husks, and a mosquito switch hanging beside the door the founder of Boynton Beach. to brush them off with before one entered. We also usually carried one made of palmetto fan to brush them off with when walking outside. At the station, Steve planted vegetable gardens, fruit trees and even had chickens and mosquitoes were nearly always present but they were particularly bad in the hogs. The latter were his favorites, of which he was very proud. He also had summer except when there was a good sea breeze. Sandflies were plentiful. a pen in which he kept gophers, the large Florida land turtles so liked by the early settlers as a variation in their table fare. Steve's dog Nellie liked We do not know how these first evenings were spent at the Station, hut writing about life a few years later at Hypoluxo Island when she was a l•Monroe,Ralph Middleton.The Commodore's Story,Ives Washburn, 1930. "Foss, Gilbert L., The Early History of Boynton Beach, Literary Florida, vol. 5, No. Is Voss, Lillie Elder Pierce, op. cit. 11,1949. l j i I qy}d • • 14 TL' Q II E ST A GILBERT L . VOSS 15 nothing better than to go out to the gopher pen and turn the turtles over and overnight at the various stations. There were other routes and other methods then bark until someone came out and righted them again. (Told by any of carrying the mail but in the mid•1880s through until the barefoot trail sister, Mrs. Harvey E. Oyer, Boynton Beach.) 1 was ended the route was as follows. As the town of Delray, or Linton as it was originally called, began to i The mail started off from the upper end of the Lake where the mailman grow, there was need of a post office closer than Hypoluxo Island and what 1 left on Monday morning in his sailing skiff and sailed down to Hypoluxo better place to have it than at the Station where the mail carrier stayed the where he got the last of the Lake mail. (Later the route was shortened and night. Mrs. Andrews ran it from 1888 to 1892 under the name of Zion. The originated at the Hypoluxo Post Office.) He then sailed to the Haulover, Andrews lived at the Station until it was finally closed down and sold in tied up his boat and crossed the ridge to the beach. Here he took off his 1896. But the name of the keeper of the Station No. 3 has survived, coin. 4hoes, rolled up his pants legs and with mailbag and shoes over his shoulder memorated in the name Andrews Avenue, long after the Orange Grove House struck off down the beach. There was a knack to beach walking; above the of Refuge had been all but forgotten. wash the sand is soft and wearying to plod through; down in the water the waves soften it as well but right at the edge of the damp sand it is usually In 1882 Capt. Pierce went back into the Life Saving Service. He moved hard as cement and the walking is easy and fast except that the beach slopes his family down to Biscayne Bay Station No. 5, one of the most desolate ro that one leg has to be a little longer than the other and move a little faster. Stations in Florida. It was located on the ocean beach near the north end Walking thus developed a peculiar lope. of Biscayne Bay and about five miles by water from Brickell's Trading Post at the mouth of the Miami River, and seven miles from Norris Cut. ! From the haulover it was five miles to Station No. 3 where he stayed The beach ridge was manly a long expanse of scrub palmetto bordered by overnight. Supper, bed and breakfast were free to the carrier. The next day's mangroves on the Bay s�de. Ed 13arnott, the first keeper, and his wife had walk (Tuesday) was twenty-five miles to the New River Station No. 4. The just moved to the mainland near Brickell's. Although the salary of the following day's walk (Wednesday) was about eighteen miles to Dum- keeper had been raised from $400 to $500 per year, the Pierces had a rough foundling Bay near Baker's Haulover,where he took his mail skiff and crossed time, as had the Barnotts. the Bay to the post office eight miles away: Here he paid for his meal and •• ' room out of his $10 a week. The following morning (Thursday) he started There were no deer or turkey in scrub palmetto country and only man• hack, arriving at Palm Beach on Saturday, three days each way, 136 miles grove snapper in this part of the Bay but there were small delicious coon of beach walking a week, about 7000 miles a year for the sum of $600! oysters on the mangrove roots. Basic food was salt pork and potatoes, relieved by dry beans, biscuits, and canned tomatoes. A few groceries could The only real tragedy to strike Station No. 3 was the mysterious death be gotten at Brickell's: q art cans of tomatoes at 60 cents each, occasionally of a barefoot mailman, Ed Hamilton, a young Kentuckian about 32 years eggs at 75 cents a dozen. Butter came in sealed cans put up for the Cuban old. On October 10, 1887, he left Hypoluxo in his sailing skiff with my trade. Vegetables could n t be grown here and mother used to walk the beach mother, now 11 years old. He turned the skiff over into her keeping for the for miles gathering and ating the edible sea kale with its peculiar bitter week at the haulover and started over the ridge. That night he stayed with taste but delicious to a person starved for greens. The Pierces were relieved c Steve and Annie Andrews at the Orange Grove and the next morning early, at Station No. 5 by Jack Peacock who later was also keeper of Station No.4 October 11, set off down the beach with that peculiar lope used by the at New River. beach walkers. It was the last time that he was ever seen. Back at Hypoluxo, Grandfather had the Post Office. This was the jump- Two days after he was supposed to return, Charlie Coman, keeper of ing off place for the barefoot mailman, so called because he walked the Station No. 4 at New River, sailed up to the Orange Grove to find out beach, the only road, from} the south end of Lake Worth to the Bay staying why Ed had not come through with the mail. The replacement carrier went l • 16 TEQUESTA GILBERT L . VOSS 17 back down the beach with Coman expecting to meet him but on the north Orange Grove House of Refuge No. 3,—First keeper, Capt. Hannibal bank of the Hillsborough River they found only his mail bag hanging from Dillingham Pierce, May, 1876 to June, 1877. Second keeper, Stephen M. a seagrape tree along with his shirt and pants. Near the water's edge the% Andrews, June 15, 1877, to 1896 when the station was closed. found his underclothing and on the opposite bank, the U.S. Mail skiff. A 1 beach tramp had tak n the mailboat across and Ed had tried to swim the New River House of Refuge No. 4,—four miles north of New River swollen river to get back and was either drowned or eaten by sharks or Inlet. First keeper, Washington (Wash) Jenkens, 1877-1882. Second keeper t alligators. A bronze t blet now stands on the banks of the Hillsborough Inlet Mr.E.R. Bradley of Hypoluxo (father of Guy Bradley, game warden shot at on the lighthouse reservation, commemorating his loss in the line of duty. Cape Sable) who stayed only seven months. Mr. Jack T. Peacock of Biscayne Bay for a brief period. Fourth keeper, Mr. Charles Coman, a college man studying marine biology. Fifth keeper,Mr.Dennis O'Neill, a Boston Irishman This was the last major event in the history of.the Orange Grove House described as having a "dark red beard and a big heart." The last keeper was of Refuge No. 3. Delray was growing and the coast was filling up with I Mr Jack Fromberger who held the position until the town of Ft. Lauderdale settlers. In 1896 the Station was closed after twenty years of service and i finally burned on March 2, 1927. crew up. Biscayne Bay House of Refuge No. 5,—First keeper, Mr. Edward It has long been believed by historians that only five Houses of Refuge . Barnott; second keeper, Capt. H. D. Pierce; third keeper, Mr. Jack Peacock. were built: Bethel Shoal Station No. 1, Gilbert's Bar Station No. 2, Orange Of subsequent keepers no record is available to me.19 Grove Station No. 3, New River Station No. 4, and Biscayne Bay Station i No. 5: However, in 1 82 an Act of Congress authorized the construction of 3 The Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge No. 2 was closely linked with the five more and the coot.act fortheir construction was let to Francis M. Smith. etations mentioned above. A partial record of its keepers include the first These Stations were: mite's Creek Station No. l., Mosquito Lagoon Station keeper, Fred Whitehead, Dec. 1, 1876 to Feb. 8, 1879; Ezra Stoner, Feb. No. 2, Chester Shoal Station No. 3, Cape Malabar Station No. 4, and Indian 1879 to May 26, 1881 (?); Mr. McMillan (or McWilliam) to 1882; David River Inlet Station No. 5. Of all of these ten stations, the one at Cape Malabar E. Brown of Lake Worth 1882 to March, 1885, followed by that veteran was closed after only five years'of operation. Orange Grove was next after Station keeper Jack T. Peacock of Biscayne Bay, Sam Bunker and the final twenty years and the rest went on into this century: Gilbert's Bar Station keeper, Mr. Bessey.20 on Hutchinson Island was operated by the Coast Guard as a surf station ! before World War II, was closed, and then recommissioned during the War. What good did the stations do? Wrecks were numerous before and after Today it is the last of the stations and now is the Martin County House of hut few occurred during the years of their operation. What they did was Refuge Museum. verve as a way-station for travellers, a haven for the mailmen, and a comfort to the ships in passing. Sailors knew that here in these desolate dwellings Keepers of the houses of refuge usually did not last long at their jobs were men and women dedicated to helping them in case of disaster. The for the stations were in desolate areas and the loneliness was overpowering. Houses of Refuge were unique to Florida and with their passing went the ( Actually few rescues were made by the Stations as they were built just at end of an era. Few today who drive the ocean boulevards of this State know the time that the east coast of Florida was beginning to build up. A full of or remember the brave men and women who manned these lonely history of the role of the stations and their keepers has yet to be written. outposts. The logs and reports f the stations are all on record in Washington and GILBERT L. Voss—Feb. 18, 1968 will make exciting rea ing when they are finally given to the public. A partial d•Voss, Lillie Elder Pierce, op. cit. list of the keepers of stations 3-5 include the following, hopefully in the 1 d•Voss, Lillie Elder Pierce, op. cit. correct order. is Stuart News,Nov.9,1950,quoted in Voss,Lillie Elder Pierce,op.cit. i , 522 NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 404 -sss-fziz RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (RECORD GROUP 26) The U.S. Coast Guard, established in dated between 1789 and 1963 in this the Department of the Treasury by an record group. act of January 28, 1915, was formed by consolidating the Department's Reve- RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF nue-Cutter and Lifesaving Services. It LIGHTHOUSES AND ITS took over lighthouse administration in PREDECESSORS. 1789-1939. 1939,and in 1942 functions of the Bureau 3,642 lin. ft. of Marine Inspection and Navigation The maintenance of lighthouses was (see RG 41) relating to navigation and performed by Treasury Department vessel inspection laws and to merchant officials from 1789 until the Light-House ; seamen were transferred to the Coast -Board was organized in 1852. This ,� Guard. On April 1, 1967, under anfict✓`" Board, transferred to the Department of October 15, 1966, the Coast-Guard of Commerce and Labor in 1903, was became a part of the Department of superseded in 1910 by the Bureau of 4. Transportation. Under the same act,the Lighthouses, which remained in the ., functions of admeasuring and document- Department of Commerce when the ; ing American vessels were transferred Department of Labor became a separate from the Bureau of Customs to the agency in 1913. It was consolidated with •' Coast Guard. the Coast Guard in 1939. The records The Coast Guard, which operates on include correspondence, with indexes,of ;i: the high seas and navigable waters of Board predecessors, including letters 4; the United States and its territories and received, 1789-1852, and sent, 1792- x° possessions, is a military service and 1852, and general correspondence of the operates as part of the Navy in time Board, 1852-1910,and the Bureau,1910- of war or when the President directs. 39 (2,122 lin. ft.); and minutes and jour- In 1946 an International Air-Sea Rescue nals of the Board and the naval and engi- Service was established, and the Coast neer secretaries, 1852-1910. Other Guard was made responsible for interna- records, 1789-1939, comprise legal case tional civil aviation over water. In 1948 files on t e acquisition and disposition it became responsible for operating of sites;deeds and contracts for light- LORAN and other warning stations. Its house construction, equipment, and sup- major duties include enforcing customs plies; drawings of lighthouses and light- and navigation laws, supervising vessel house sites (including some lifesaving anchorages and movements, reporting s,a,inns) 1840-1930 logbooks (in marine casualties, protecting life and WNRC) of lighthouses, tenders, and property at sea, installing and maintain- light vessels, 1873-1939; title papers to ing aids to navigation and to transocean- vessels owned by the Board, 1853-95; ic aviation,and carrying on oceanograph- appointment and salary registers and ic observations as part of an interagency miscellaneous personnel records, 1833- program. 1912; and accounting records, ca. 1852- There are 10,290 cubic feet of records 1912. e1 *- Pam) GA y. ,,�+) 2}4,-, ,jr'� '' i e4 ,, �ryl+k �. f -; �5E 4° ,ry ;' n + i� �r,,., .. . a a 2 e- t \ 1 1_.7 ---,two*. 4 F+A.''^F'b t -f d�fii' T- %. • ', ( "1`}. � � '( Z � ;� '4`. t? S, •i F? Rf� i.#. �y '4 '�A 'l•4.,a s 1" �. ��dv top t t .„ EXECUTIVE BRANCH 523 Y°Xa'�` F" 3'twF Records, 1838-1939,of the 3d,4th,5th, but including copies of letters sent dated ;, M ` 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 17th as early as 1790;muster rolls, 1833-1913. ^L � Lighthouse Districts (460 lin. ft.) con- applications for r� :f PP positions, 1844-80; con- �j ��, ��1 . sist primarily of correspondence and respondence, 1880-1920, and specifica- '• '} wreck reports and often substitute for tions for vessels dating from 1845 of the t headquarters records destroyed by fire. Construction and Repair Division; e . r_ The records of the 3d District, New records relating to Alaskan cruises and York, 1852-1939, are the most complete. police work in Alaska, 1867-1914,includ- I' x 0,:�.: 4 t h Also included are records of lighthouses ing the rescue by the Bear of icebound t''* 1 1 in the Virgin Islands, 1910-17,and Puer- whalers in 1897-98 and the Nurcivak's •' . ' pt : to Rico, including some Spanish colonial ethnological and meteorological studies ;�� v ! llij �'``�� ` government records,1838-98. and collection of botanical and geological • �TM ',,,4 �;� 's ,- c�� : data in the Yukon River area in 1899; �. wreck re 3' '�' ' RECORDS OF THE REVENUE- ports, 1894-1913; reports of ; 3- r- ` ,K... • CUTTER SERVICE. 1790-1915,with assistance rendered, 1903-14; and i4b. "`,'t J" -A- k' �' a few dated as late as 1920. account books. }} :Pi 606 kn. ft. I`� � :,i°r This Service originated under an act RECORDS OF THE LIFESAVING V-tt. = 1 r€ x of August 4, 1790, authorizing the con SERVICE. 1847-1915. 880 lin. ft. , This Service was established in 1871 t ,: �.4. r struction and equipment of cutters to x, - enforce laws governing the collection of in the Revenue-Marine Division of the _ Treasury Department. It was laced + •customs and tonnage duties. Customs P � °y � ` collectors supervised the cutters from ..4. under a general superintendent imrnedi- ` �.° ��" ' 1791 until 1843, when a Revenue Marine ately responsible to the Secretary of the krr� r t Division in the Office of the SecretaryTreasury by an act of June 18, 1878,but r, nir' ", of the Treasury took over that function. its relationship to the Revenue-Cutter } � P a Service remained close. In 1882 a Board } � 'In 1849 control of cutters was again r t r `� ef" . ' transferred to the collectors, but in 1871 of Life-Saving appliances was estab- ,, i �,, :*fa.. a new Revenue Marine Division was lished to examine, test; and report ont ,� established. It became the Revenue-Cut all ljfesaving equipment. I�� +� ter Service on July 31, 1894. Its func- The records include correspondence {, .s � : bons include suppressing smuggling, the concerning Service personnel,fiscal mat- � �+ f PP g 4 < y# ' slave trade, and piracy; assisting ships ters, procedures, programs, and sea dis- }�;:'' t v� , ' asters and rescues, >K` A...','1` :'),x, in distress; removing and destroying 1847-1914; journals, . `� nN �, � rt wrecks and other navigation hazards 1881-1914; accountingrecords, wreck ,'- -- �` v and enforcing quarantine regulationsreports lifesaving stations, and t-, x w £ry`xrL+ ," ' "- from � �f- � + neutrality laws, and laws forbidding the abstracts of wreck reports, 1878-85; � t �K, 's- z:,„i - records relating to awarding importation of unskilled Chinese labor, g b lifesaving •� After 1867 it enforced regulations in medals; articles of engagement for surf- -4,•' 1= `� < } Alaska concerning the unauthorized kill- men, and miscellaneous personnels .a r' ing of fur-bearing animals, fishery pro- records, 1878-1915; and correspondence `$ ,t,- -, ;fz ',,,c • tection, ..nd traffic in firearms, ammuni- P b 1g+ t � ' and reports of the Board of Life-Saving T tin , G s •. Appliances, '�s�i .`� t �,�,tion, and liquor. It was authorized in PP ' ,1888-1911. 1914 to furnish medical and surgical aid hY r ,,� ' to crewmembers of American deep-sea U.S. COAST GUARD RECORDS. „.z i - fishing vessels. It was also responsible 1828-1947, with a few dated as early �' fik, ' for furnishing the vessels for the Inter- as 1790. 7,441 lin. ft. and 308 rolls of -, v � �` national Ice Patrol,established in 1914. microfilm. ��t�' y� �"�t The records include correspondence, Included are reports, correspondence "' `4�#<e with registers and indexes, 1833-1910, and memorandums, 1910-41, of Coast * r .t � '' ' x h T A rnd't �+M a 1} " i %�T' .r.,.:.., �, '�i '77.,."r ar,,. � K M` j..`-cr,1, t t x;+; a -Y` ytt, ( p ,Z 14,,, c . s,%_%, . Fa. t�8 , :i�i .0'-. .y 'A', - _r-�j•-. ,�, � 1f ,-.,i� .,�i ' ', ,>`" �X> :1 r# i, (ti3, "f;.I. },, -v,Y la,-- wf N'Nv. ,,P,-,1 i tc:,,, 'f r�. '*'.: �: `_. ,k,Fi+ ,a ,`.4 �gwt v il t i. g�.. ,, , 4-,,- r° ;,i-Z' r+. 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