The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗On July 10, 1963, a city charter was passed upon legislative approval after actively supported through the Florida State House of Representatives as House bill 2079, guided through the Florida House with the aid of Representative Emerson Alsworth Esq., from the original idea of a city charter for an unincorporated rural ranch style open spaced town of founder and local farmer, rancher, veteran, and politician Bruce Blount. Early on, Blount put up tracts of his private land, calling his town BBB Ranches, in his original attempts for official recognition. Rep. Alsworth would facilitate this process of approval by adding in the bill the name of the proposed town as Parkland, a description befitting Blount's initial proposal of an undeveloped town out of the way of the building boon of Broward County. And after a passing vote in July, on August 12, 1963, Parkland was officially recognized a…
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CommonsLoxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge-sign2022
CommonsStudent demonstrators and gun-control activists holding up …2018
CommonsParkland Recognition2016
CommonsJeb Bush recognition2016
CommonsRyanDeitsch2015
CommonsSawgrass Big Curve Aerial2012
CommonsRaw Vegan Meatless Thanks-Giving Turkey2012
CommonsWater Control Gates2010Nothing in Parkland is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Parkland has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Seaboard Air Line Railway Station, Old in Deerfield Beach, 8.4 miles away.
Parkland and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
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Stories next door
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