Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Boca Raton, Fl. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Waymarking.com

Pearl City is a neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida, immediately north of downtown. The neighborhood was originally platted on May 30, 1915 for blue-collar African Americans employed at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, on area farms, in construction, land-clearing, and various domestic jobs.[1]

There is little evidence on the origin of the name, but it is often theorized that Pearl City is named after the the Hawaiian pearl pineapple, a major crop grown in the area at the time.

The neighborhood was designated a historic district by the decree of the Boca Raton City Council in 2002.

Please visit the website to learn about this amazing area and it's people, Sponsored by the Boca Raton Historical Society. There is abundance of information listed here with photographs and locals telling their story!

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