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.
The American Lutheran Church Board of American Missions bought five acres on Holly Drive in 1962, just behind what was also known as Plant Drive Park. Construction began on the new Nativity Lutheran Church by June of that year, with the founding…