Delray Beach Historical Society

Delray Beach Historical Society Preserving, celebrating and sharing the history of our Village by the Sea

📸: Delray Beach Historical Society President Rose Sloan at the ribbon cutting to open the Cason Cottage with Mayor Doak ...
09/03/2026

📸: Delray Beach Historical Society President Rose Sloan at the ribbon cutting to open the Cason Cottage with Mayor Doak Campbell, 1989.

Women in Delray were also avid golfers. By the 1940s, women joined the City’s golf committee and later formed the Delray...
09/01/2026

Women in Delray were also avid golfers. By the 1940s, women joined the City’s golf committee and later formed the Delray Beach Women’s Golf Association. The organization participated in tournaments throughout Palm Beach County, often playing against other organizations from West Palm Beach and Lake Worth.

In March 1966, the golf club held the inaugural Louise Suggs Invitational, a golf tournament on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour. While it was open to amateur players, they played against several top golfers, such as Marilynn Smith (winner of the St. Petersburg Open), Kathy Whitworth, and Gloria Armstrong. Suggs, an LPGA player and Delray resident, hosted the event for several years. Suggs also taught golf at the Delray Beach golf club as well as LPGA Hall of Famer Betty Jameson.

📸: Louise Suggs playing at the Delray Beach Country Club, c. 1950s.

The first Student Athletic Society was established at Carver High School in 1946. The Society was organized before the f...
08/31/2026

The first Student Athletic Society was established at Carver High School in 1946. The Society was organized before the football team.

Although the American alligator courtship and mating season begins in late spring and early summer, according to the Flo...
08/27/2026

Although the American alligator courtship and mating season begins in late spring and early summer, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, hatching season lasts from mid-August to early September. Alligators deposit an average of 32 to 46 eggs in their mound nests, made of soil and vegetation. Mother alligators are fiercely protective of their nests and young. The hatchlings stay very close to their mother for the first year of life, and will remain near her for their first three years before finding their own territories.

📸: Postcard, Alligator eggs hatching, Florida, undated.

The beach cottages on Delray's barrier island served as summer homes for many of the town's pioneering families, includi...
08/25/2026

The beach cottages on Delray's barrier island served as summer homes for many of the town's pioneering families, including the Sundys and Actons. The direct ocean breezes were much cooler than the slightly more inland winds along Swinton Avenue. When the City of Delray incorporated in 1911, it did not include the barrier island as there were not enough taxpayers living there to offset the cost of the new bridge tender, who was paid by the county. The Town of Delray Beach later incorporated in 1923 and the two municipalities merged to become the City of Delray Beach in 1927.

📸: Ocean Beach, Delray, Florida, c. late 1910s.

📸: Elma Repp, daughter of hotelier and investor Albert T. Repp, with her ukulele in front of her home in Delray Beach, c...
08/20/2026

📸: Elma Repp, daughter of hotelier and investor Albert T. Repp, with her ukulele in front of her home in Delray Beach, c. 1920s.

Before colorful cabanas dotted the shoreline, visitors to Delray Beach enjoyed palm-thatched shelters to escape the sun ...
08/18/2026

Before colorful cabanas dotted the shoreline, visitors to Delray Beach enjoyed palm-thatched shelters to escape the sun and heat. 📸: Women enjoying the shade of Delray Beach's palm shelters, c. 1938

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3 NE 1st Street
Delray Beach, FL
33444

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Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm

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(561) 274-9578

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