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In 1961, MacArthur transplanted a banyan tree to the site of Northlake and Garden Boulevards at the main entrance to Palm Beach Gardens. However, unforeseen problems arose during the transplant, including the cutting of the Western Union lines…

Florida's largest shopping mall at the time, The Gardens Mall opened in the fall of 1988 at 3101 PGA Boulevard. This urban center, developed by the Forbes Company, was designated to be the centerpiece for the city's commercial and business district…

Each of the four towers atop the PGA Boulevard flyover bridge house an elegant steel mesh sculpture by Maryland artist Wendy Ross. Each suspended metal sphere is about five feet in diameter. Below each sphere is transparent steel mesh fabricated to…

St. Mark's Episcopal Church originated on Advent Sunday in December 1962, when clergy from Holy Trinity Church of West Palm Beach began meeting with a group in the North Palm Beach Elementary School. Under the leadership of Reverend Robert Terhune,…

Palm Beach Gardens' first recreation director, Woody Dukes, proudly presents the first piece of playground equipment. It was located at Plant Drive Park when it opened in 1965. What the park lacked in equipment was made up for in parental enthusiasm.…

Lifeguard Don Kiselewski Jr. barks out safety instructions from his megaphone at the new city pool. Funds that were used to build the pool ($155,000) were earned on May 1, 1981 during a community project called "The House that Buz Built," setting a…

The SWAT team was formed in 1993 to assist with executing high-risk search warrants, high-risk arrest warrants of dangerous subjects, barricaded suspects, building searches for suspects, hostage situations, or any incident in which there is an…

Officer Robert "Bobby" Wummer (left), with K-9 Kris, and officer Glenn Wright (right), with K-9 Aran, were the city's first canine officers. Officer Wummer has been with the department since April 1984 and with the canine unit since it began in 1994.…

In 1971, a new two-story municipal complex was constructed to house the police department; city clerk; city manager; the finance, building, and recreation departments; and the city council chambers. In 1974, six air-conditioned cars patrolled the…

Palm Beach Gardens High School opened in 1968 with 1,700 students. It was the first public high school in the area, on Holly Drive just a few blocks from the heart of MacArthur's first neighborhood on MacArthur Boulevard.