Boynton Beach Florida Information

It was 1894, one year after the last 'Barefoot Mailman' walked along its sandy shores and two years before Henry Flagler built his famous railroad, that a former Civil War major from Port Huron, Michigan named Nathan S. Boynton first set eyes on the area that now bears his name.

He was so impressed by the natural beauty of what he saw, the year-round sunshine and pristine beaches, that he returned a year later with a group of colonists and built the famous Boynton Beach Hotel to serve as his family's summer residence.

Since that time, Boynton Beach has grown steadily and never looked back. Motorola built their worldwide paging headquarters here in 1983 and the city's population has risen from 5,000 in 1958 to a present number of approximately 60,000 residents. Most importantly, Boynton Beach has expanded wisely, retaining the charm of her orange groves, dairy farms, fishing marinas and sandy beaches.