A history of Jupiter,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Jupiter from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area where the town now sits was originally named for the Hobe Indian tribe which lived at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River and whose name is also preserved in the name of nearby Hobe Sound. A mapmaker misunderstood the Spanish spelling Jobe of the native people name Hobe and recorded it as Jove. Subsequent mapmakers further misunderstood this to be the name of the Roman god Jupiter, because the declension of the word Jupiter in Latin includes the root Jov- in all cases but the nominative case and vocative case. They, therefore, adopted the more familiar name of Jupiter. The god Jupiter (or Zeus in the Greek mythology) is the chief Roman god, and the god of light, of the sky and weather, and of the state and its welfare and laws. Jupiter's consort was Juno, inspiring a neighboring town to name itself Juno Beach.
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Finish Jupiter’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCoconuts at Jupiter, c. 1875: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Jupiter
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Jupiter, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Coconuts at Jupiter (c. 1875) and it appears here side by side.
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