Delray Beach is a beach town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population of Delray Beach is estimated at 67,371 by 2016. That's up from 60,522 according to the 2010 US Census. Delray Beach is a major city in the Miami metropolitan area, which is home to about 6,012,331 people by 2015.
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History
Initial years
The earliest known human population of what is now Delray Beach is the people of Jaega. The Tequesta Indians were likely to pass or inhabit the area at different times, and the US military map of 1841 showed a Seminole camp located in what is now known as Ida Lake. Some other details of the settlement of local indigenous people have survived.
In 1876, the Life Savings Service of the United States built the Orange Grove House of Refuge to save and protect the damaged sailors of ships. This house gets its name from a clump of acid-tamarind citrus and other tropical fruit trees found at the location chosen for the shelter, but there is no record or proof of who planted the tree was found.
The first non-native group to build settlements was an African-American party from Panhandle of Florida who bought land slightly inland from the Orange Grove House of Refuge and began farming around 1884. In 1894 the Black community was large enough to establish the first school in the area.
In 1894, William S. Linton, a member of the Republican Congress of the Republic for Saginaw, Michigan, bought a plot of land west of Grove House of Refuge Orange Grove, and began selling plots in what he hoped would be a community agriculture. Initially, this community was named Linton. In 1896, Henry Flagler expanded its East Coast Railroad south from West Palm Beach to Miami, with a station in Linton.
Linton settlers set up post offices and shops, and began to succeed with winter vegetable truck farms for the northern market. A violent freeze in 1898 was a setback, and many of the settlers left, including William Linton. Partly in an attempt to change the public's fortunes, or leave a bad reputation, the name of the settlement changed in 1901 to Delray, after the Detroit Delray neighborhood ("Delray" became the English spelling of "Del Rey", the Spanish for "king"), which in turn named after the Mexican-American War of the Molino del Rey War.
Settlers of The Bahamas (then part of the British West Indies), sometimes referred to as 'Nassaws', began to arrive in the early 1900s. After 1905, newspaper articles and photos of Delray's events revealed that the Japanese settlers from nearby Yamato farming colonies also began to participate in Delray's civilian activities such as parades, going to the movies, and shopping. The 1910 census shows Delray as a city of 904 residents. Twenty-four US states and nine other countries are listed as birthplace residents. Although still a small town, Delray has a very diverse population.
In 1911, the area was leased by the State of Florida as an incorporated city. In the same year, pineapple and tomato canner plant was built. Pineapple became the main crop in the area. This is reflected in the name of the current Pineapple Grove neighborhood near downtown Delray Beach.
Prior to 1909, the Delray settlement land was in the Dade area. That year, Palm Beach County was carved in the northern part of the region. In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County donated almost the same piece of land to create what is now Broward County between the two, leaving Delray located in the southeast part of Palm Beach County.
In 1920, the population of Delray had reached 1,051. In the 1920s, the Everglades drainage west of Delray lowered the water level, making it harder to plant pineapples, while the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway into Key West resulted in competition from Cuban pineapple to markets in the northern United States.
The Florida land boom in 1920 brought new prosperity to Delray. Tourism and real estate speculation become an important part of the local economy. Delray issued bonds to raise money for plumbing and sewers, paved roads and sidewalks. Some hotels are built. At that time Delray was the largest city on the east coast of Florida between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. The collapse of the ground boom in 1926 left Delray burdened with high debt obligations, and greatly reduced the revenue from property taxes.
Delray is separated from the Atlantic Ocean coast by the Florida East Coast Canal (now part of the Intracoastal Waterway). In 1923, the area between the canal and the ocean was united as Delray Beach. In 1927 Delray and Delray Beach merged into a town called Delray Beach.
Beginning in the mid-1920s, seasonal Artists and Writers Colony was established in Delray Beach and the city adjacent to the Gulf Stream. At that time, the city of Palm Beach did not welcome Hollywood figures or all kinds of artists, so Delray's winter colony attracted a more eclectic and bohemian population. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Delray became a popular winter bag for artists and writers, especially famous cartoonists. Two nationally syndicated cartoonists - H. T. Webster (creator of "Caspar Milquetoast") and Fontaine Fox of "Toonerville Trolley" fame - have offices upstairs in the Arcade Building above the Arcade Tap Room; a gathering place where artists and writers might join aristocrats, politicians, entertainers, and sports figures. Famous artists and other authors of the era who own a home in Delray Beach include: Herb Roth, WJ "Pat" Enright, Robert Bernstein, Wood Cowan, Denys Wortman, Jim Raymond, Charles Williams, Herb Niblick, Hugh McNair Kahler, Clarence Budington Kelland, Nina Wilcox Putnam, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. This seasonal visitor helps soften the effects of the real estate downturn and the Great Depression in the city.
During the Depression, not much money was available because the two banks had failed, but progress continued, and the city still looked prosperous because of the explosion of new buildings during the boom years. The Artists and Writers Colony thrives and the fame of Delray Beach as a growing resort town. This era is considered the "golden age of architecture" of Delray Beach; a period in which the city was ranked 50th in the population but 10 in building permits in Florida. The outstanding architectural styles of Delray Beach from this period include Art Deco, Revival Mediterranean, Mission Revival, Monterey Colonial, Streamline Moderne, bungalows, and Key West style cabins for the winter Artists and Writers colony.
Post World War II
During the four years of World War II, Delray Beach residents volunteered to watch the beach and sea 24 hours a day from the fake bell tower on the seashore Seacrest Hotel. Military personnel patrol the beach on horseback. The shipping attack can be seen from the beach. During World War II, Delray Beach also saw the influx of service personnel stationed at the nearby Boca Raton Army Airfield. Several veterans trained in the airfield resettled in Delray Beach after the war. The steady growth of the city continued until the 1950s and 1960s.
In the early 1960s Delray Beach began to be known for surfing. Atlantic Avenue was the largest Florida surfboard seller at the time. Delray Beach surfing fame increased serendip after the vessel blast in 1965. During Betsy Hurricane, 441 feet (134M) ship escape escape on Singer Island, creating a windbreak that formed a perfectly ruptured wave. The ship was dismantled three years later, but local surfers remain in touch with the area.
In the 1970s, Interstate 95 between Palm Beach Gardens and Miami was fully completed and construction began to spread west of the city limits. This pattern continued and accelerated throughout the 1980s, as urban centers and many older neighborhoods fell into periods of economic decline.
The revitalization of several historic areas began during the last decades of the twentieth century, as some of the structures of local landmarks have been renovated. These include the Colony Hotel and Old School Square (former school of Delray Elementary School and Delray High School, since turning into a cultural center). The city also established five Historic Districts, listed in the List of Local Historic Sites, and annexed several other historic settlement neighborhoods between Route 1 of the US and the Intrautastal Waterway in an effort to preserve some distinctive local architecture.
In 2001, the historic home of the teacher/principal Solomon D. Spady was renovated and transformed into the Spady Heritage Heritage Museum. The Spady Museum stores black archives. In 2007, the museum expanded by renovating the 1935 cottage as Kid's Cultural Clubhouse, and the construction of a 50-seat amphitheater named C. Spencer Pompey, a pioneering black educator.
Downtown Delray, located in the eastern part of town, along Atlantic Avenue, east of I-95 and stretched to shore, has undergone major renovations and gentrification. Delray Beach Tennis Center has brought business to the area. It has hosted several international tennis events such as the April 2005 Fed Cup (AS vs Belgium), April 2004 Davis Cup (US vs. Sweden), Delray Beach International Tennis Championship (ATP Event), and Chris Evert/Bank of America Pro Celebrity.
The Community College of the Atlantic was rebuilt in 2005 at a different location than the previous school, a plan filled with many disputes.
When DayJet operates from 2007 to 2008, its headquarters are in Delray Beach.
From 2009 to 2012, Pet Airways is headquartered in Delray Beach.
In 2012, Rand McNally's "Best of the Road" was named Delray Beach America's Most Fun Small Town. Delray Beach is rated as the 3rd Happiest Seaside Town in America by Coastal Living by 2015.
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Geography
- The city's eastern boundary covers 3 miles (4.8 km) from the beach along the Atlantic Ocean.
- Directly to the south, the city is bordered by Boca Raton.
- To the south and southeast, the city is bordered by Highland Beach on the same island barrier east of the Intracoastal Waterway.
- Directly to the north, the city is bordered by Boynton Beach.
- To the north and northeast, the city is bordered by the Gulf Stream on the barrier island and along the eastern portion of Route 1 of the US.
- To the west, the urban area that includes High Point, Kings Point, Villages of Oriole, and its gated community extends from the western boundary of the city to the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge of the Everglades. Many residences and businesses within this suburban corridor unrelated to Palm Beach County have the Delray Beach postal address even though technically are out of the city limits. This area is sometimes referred to collectively and informally as "Western Delray."
Delray Beach's location in Southeastern Palm Beach County is in the middle of the Gold Coast area of ​​Florida.
According to the US Census Bureau, the city of Delray Beach has a total land area of ​​15.81 miles (25.44 km).
City center location
In previous years, downtown Delray was centered along Atlantic Avenue in the west like Swinton Avenue and as far east as the intracoastal waterway. The city center has since grown. In 2010, the city center expanded westward to I-95 and east as the Atlantic Ocean; The north-south border extends about two blocks north and south of Atlantic Avenue.
Climate
Delray Beach has a tropical climate, more specifically tropical rainforest climates (climate classification KÃÆ'¶ppen Af ), as the driest month (February) averages 64.8mm precipitation, meets minimum 60mm standards on the driest Moon required for qualify for the appointment.
Delray Beach has a hot and humid summer and warm winters, with a dry season marked in winter. Close to sea level, beach location, position just above Tropic of Cancer, and close to Gulf Stream forming climate. The hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to November 30, although hurricanes can expand beyond that date. The most likely time for hurricane activity is during the peak of the Cape Verde season, ie mid-August to late September. Delray Beach has received direct or near direct attacks from storms in 1903, 1906, 1928, 1947, 1949, 1964, 1965, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2004, and 2005.
Demographics
In 2010, there were 34,156 households where 20.4% were vacant. In 2000, 18.9% of households had children under 18 living with them, 42.4% were married couples living together, 10.2% had non-husbands female households, and 43.7% were not family. 35.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 18.3% have someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.87.
In 2000, the urban population spread by 18.2% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 25.9% aged 65 years or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females, there are 91.2 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 88.0 men.
In 2000, the average income for households in the city was $ 43,371, and the average income for families was $ 51,195. Men have an average income of $ 33,699 compared to $ 28,469 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 29,350. About 8.2% of families and 11.8% of the population are below the poverty line, including 17.6% of those under the age of 18 and 7.8% of those aged 65 and older.
In 2000, English speakers as the first language contributed 75.44% of all residents, while French Creole accounted for 11.73%, Spain consisted of 7.02%, France 1.87%, Italy 0.88%, and Germany 0.75% of the population.
In 2000, Delray Beach had the sixth largest percentage of Haitian citizens in the US, with 10.50% of the population.
Sports
Delray Beach Open is a professional ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament held every year. Delray Beach Tennis Center also hosts the Fed Cup, Davis Cup, and Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic.
Delray Beach Tennis Center is a public tennis facility with 14 clays, 6 hard courts, and 8,200 seats located near the city center on Atlantic Avenue. The center includes an upstairs pavilion and conference room, a pro-shop with locker rooms, racket rackets, and merchandise. The club offers a range of adult and junior programs, leagues, clinics and camps. Second location, Delray Swim & amp; Tennis Club, has 24 clays and a clubhouse that has a pro shop with merchandise and changing rooms.
On July 20, 2010, city commissioner proclaimed that the city's name will be officially converted to Tennis Beach for one week in honor of his nomination by the United States Tennis Association as one of the top tennis cities in the United States.
Culture and attractions
The city has 2 miles (3.2 km) from a public beach accessible from Florida State Road A1A. Holiday Travel Magazine is named Delray Municipal Beach as the top beach in the southeastern United States. The remains of the British Inchulva, which sank on September 11, 1903, lie in shallow waters near public beaches, acting as the original fish and coral habitat. Known today as Delray Wreck, the site is noted for snorkeling and scuba diving.
Downtown Delray Beach has undergone a gentrification program centered on East Atlantic Avenue, also known as "The Avenue". The area is famous for its nightlife, dining, and shopping. Atlantic Avenue is also a regular destination for various art fairs and street festivals.
Delray Beach has a community street-legal golf carts between residents as well as local businesses. Exhilaride offers street-legal golf cart rentals to visitors and residents based on hours, days or longer. The Downtowner is a free point-to-point golf cart ride service available by app and Katch-a-Ride is a similar business, available by phone.
The Pineapple Grove Arts District, located in the city center north of Atlantic Avenue, is famous for galleries, performing arts, and cultural organizations.
Arts Garage, a nonprofit multi-media arts venue, organizes music concerts, live theaters, art education and outreach programs, and visual art galleries.
The Silverball Museum has over 150 classic pinball machines and playable arcade games.
The Delray Beach Playhouse, which opened in 1947 at Ida East Lake Park, stage play, musicals, interactive studio theater, stage books, children's theater productions, classes and camps.
Old School Square, former Delray High School campus and Delray High School, has been transformed into a cultural center. The Old School Square complex now comprises the Crest Theater, a venue for performing arts, in the former High School building; 1925 Gymnasium, restored to maintain its appearance, which has since become a venue for local events such as wedding receptions and dances; The Cornell Art Museum, built in a restored Primary School; and The Pavilion, which serves as an open space for musical performances and other events such as political rallies. The School of Creative Arts offers beginners through master's level art, photography, and writing classes for children and adults.
The Cason Cottage House Museum, once home to the pioneer family of Delray Beach, offers visitors a glimpse of everyday life in South Florida from 1915 to 1935. The museum is managed and operated by the Delray Beach Historical Society.
The Sandoway Discovery Center, located in the historic J. B. Evans House on 142 South Ocean Boulevard, featuring native plants, live animals, and many collections of shells from around the world. The center offers environmental education programs and classes.
The historic Sundy House now operates as a luxurious eco-resort. The premises include The Sundy family's former apartments and cottages that have been converted into guest accommodations, cafes, antique shops, and Taru Tropical Garden.
The historic home of the teacher/principal Solomon D. Spady was renovated and transformed into the Spady Heritage Heritage Museum. The Spady Museum houses a black archive and hosts exhibitions and programs designed to recognize the efforts of blacks who play a role in shaping Delray Beach and Palm Beach County. In 2007, the museum expanded by renovating the 1935 cottage as Kid's Cultural Clubhouse, and the construction of a 50-seat amphitheater named C. Spencer Pompey, a pioneering black educator.
Museum of Morikami and Japanese Garden is the center of Japanese art and culture. The campus includes two museum buildings, the Roji-en Japanese Park: Tetes Dew Park, bonsai park, library, souvenir shop, and a Japanese restaurant, called Cafe Cornell, which has been featured on the Food Network. Rotating exhibits is displayed in both buildings, and demonstrations, including tea and class ceremonies, are held in the main building. Traditional Japanese festivals are celebrated several times a year.
Wakodahatchee Wetlands is a wetland open to the public. Facilities include a three-quarters sidewalk that crosses between open water pool areas, swampy areas that appear, shallow shelves, and islands with shrubs and tears to encourage nesting and crowing. This site is part of the southern part of the Great Florida Birding Trail and offers many opportunities to observe birds in their natural habitat. More than 151 species of birds have been seen in the park, including grebe fainted birds, snowy herons, and black whistling ducks. The park is also home to turtles, crocodiles, rabbits, frogs, and raccoons.
Delray Beach retains five athletic fields, five beaches and aquatic parks, eight community parks, two intracoastal parks, a teenage and skate park, a splash park, and a pool and tennis club, offering a variety of recreational activities and facilities.
Economy
Delray Beach is one of the most popular beach destinations in South Florida. The area is famous for its restaurants, retail stores, night clubs, art galleries, and hotels.
Recent developments
Downtown Delray Beach has experienced a building boom since about 2003. Recent developments reflect the urban New Urbanism trend, and the mansionization of seaside properties, sometimes creating pressure in the Historic District and historic sites. A mixed-use development project has recently been developed, and more planned, in areas immediately north and south of Atlantic Avenue. To accommodate the anticipated growth, the city has also built two new city parking garages.
Drug recovery program
In 2007, a New York Times article labeled Delray Beach as the drug recovery capital of the United States for owning one of the largest recovery communities in the country and relatively few homes. However, the lucrative local drug rehabilitation industry has received mixed reviews from addictive experts and is perceived as a public disturbance by some residents and city officials. Continuing complaints from health care scams, insurance fraud, public resource pressures, and lack of adequate regulation and inspection of rehabilitation facilities have received media coverage. In July 2017, several national news outlets including the New York Times and NBC News published an investigative report detailing fraudulent allegations in the US billion dollar drug rehab industry Florida, focusing on Delray Beach House is quiet. At least 30 arrests due to illegal "patient intercession" have been carried out between July 2016 and July 2017 and more are expected.
Top entrepreneurs
According to Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2014 from Delray Beach, the top employers in the city are:
Opioid Epidemic
Delray Beach has experienced a drastic surge in opioid overdose in recent years, reaching record numbers in 2016 and 2017. The numbers peaked on October 96, 2016. Most of the overdoses are heroin products mixed with Fentanyl.
Landmarks and landmarks
- The Colony Hotel, designed by architect Martin L. Hampton and built in 1926, is the Delray Beach Historic Landmark.
- Delray Beach Tennis Center, Tennis Stadium is able to accommodate 8,200 spectators.
- The Old School Square, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
- The Palm Trail Yacht Club at Intracoastal Waterway, designed by Medieval Modernist designer Alfons Bach.
- Sewell C. Biggs House, designed by Paul Rudolph.
- John and Elizabeth Shaw Sundy House and Taru Gardens, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Destination
- Cornell Museum
- Delray Beach Public Library
- Delray Beach Seaboard Air Line Train Station
- J. B. Evans House and Sandoway House Nature Center, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
- Marina Historic District, listed in the List of National Historic Sites.
- Milton-Myers American Legion Post No. 65, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden
- Morikami Park
- Roji-en Japanese Gardens
- Silver Ball Museum
- The Spady Museum
- Wakodahatchee Wetlands
Transportation
Highway
- Florida State Road A1A, known as "Ocean Boulevard", is the Coastal Ocean of Historic and North-South Coast that passes through the city between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean.
- Route 1 AS, also known as "Federal Highway", is a north-south road that passes through downtown, commercial districts, and residential areas in the eastern part of the city. US1 is divided into one-way couples that are shared through the city center.
- Interstate 95 divides the city from north to south with two Delray Beach.
- The Florida Turnpike is a north-south toll road passing through the unconnected Delray Beach, with an intersection on Atlantic Avenue.
- The US Highway 441, also known as State Road 7, is a north-south highway passing through residential and commercial areas just to the west of the city limits.
- Other major north-south roads include Congress Avenue, Military Trail, and Jog Road.
- Florida State Road 806, known as "Atlantic Avenue", is the main east-west route between State Road A1A and US 441, and the downtown commercial center.
- Atlantic Avenue, Linton Boulevard and George Bush Boulevard are east-west roads with crossing over pedestrian bridges over the Intracoastal waterway.
Rel
- Tri-Rail and Amtrak commuter train systems serve the city with stops at Delray Beach Station.
Bus
- PalmTran provides local bus services in the area.
Shuttle
- The Downtown Roundabout: The free shuttle connects Tri-Rail Station to Downtown Delray Beach. With two routes, and 22 stops across the city center, it operates 7 days a week.
- City Center: On-demand, local, free service using green technology.
Water
Downtown Delray Beach is accessible by boat through The Intracoastal Waterway. The city has a city marina with rental slips just south of the Atlantic Avenue junction. Yacht cruises are also launched daily from Veteran's Park just north of the Atlantic Avenue suspension bridge.
Famous people
In popular culture
During the Artists and Writers Colony of the 1930s 1950s, residents and locations of Delray Beach were described and described - either directly or indirectly - in cartoon illustrations Herb Roth, WJ (Pat) Enright, HT Webster, Fontaine Fox, and Jim Raymond.
Delray Beach is referenced in the correspondence published by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who lived in town with her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1935-36 while writing Conversation at Midnight .
Popular novels with specially arranged scenes in Delray Beach include La Brava, Edgar Award winner 1984 Elmore Leonard for Best Novel, and Elaine Viets Kidnapped! of the national bestselling Dead-End Series mystery work.
The folk song of GreenWorld Village song Rod MacDonald "My Neighbors In Delray" was written on the author's discovery that some of the terrorists responsible for the September 11 attacks had spent time in Delray Beach just before the attack.
Some of the films and television productions that are specifically tuned or filmed in Delray Beach include:
- Body Heat, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Ted Danson, filmed partly in Delray Beach.
- The Comedian, a 2016 film starring Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann and Danny DeVito, partly filmed in Delray Beach.
- Bad Boys II, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, was filmed partly in Delray Beach. The film's producers blew up a $ 40 million seaside home in Delray Beach as part of a scene set in Cuba.
- After Midnight , a feature film 2014 was taken at Artists Alley, part of Delray Beach's Pineapple Grove District in downtown.
- In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine, partly tuned and filmed in Delray Beach.
- Hitters Anonymous , starring Linda Blair, Steven Bauer, and Clint Howard, was filmed in Delray Beach.
- The Red Trail, starring James Belushi, Lorraine Bracco, and Tony Goldwyn, was filmed partly in Delray Beach.
- CSI: Miami filmed scenes, including a light plane emergency landing on the beach, in Delray Beach.
- The TLC The Psychic MatchMaker program was shot in Delray Beach.
- Broad City, Comedy Central series, recorded a season 4 episode called "Florida" at several locations in Delray Beach.
Twin Cities
Delray Beach has three twin cities, as defined by Sister Cities International: Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan - Miyazu is the birthplace of George Morikami, whose Morikami Park and Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens are named.
See also
References
Source
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Cecil W.; Margoann Farrar (1974). Unrivaled Delray Beach - Early Life and Its Freedom . Star Publishing. - Sandy Simon (1999). Remember: History of South Palm Beach County 1894-1998 in Florida . The Cedars Group. ISBN: 0-9669625-0-8.
- "Old School Square Cultural Arts Center - Past and Present Creative Mixing at Downtown Delray Beach"
- The Spady Museum, Connecting Cultures and Communities
External links
- Delray Beach Town
- Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce
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