TownTapestry
Sign inJoin
Pine AirGood morning
History · Pine Air

Pine Air’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold no old photos of Pine Air. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

0old images & papers
0recent photos

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Pine Air is a census-designated place (CDP) in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 2,190 as of the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,024 to 2,190 (+8%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pine Air yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Be one of the first

Start Pine Air’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pine Air’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Famous people from Pine AirWriters, athletes, leaders and more who were born in Pine Air.Meet them →
By decade

Pine Air, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your album
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Pine Air is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Pine Air has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Vedado Historic District in West Palm Beach, 3 miles away.

Pine Air and the nearest listed places

Dashed line = Pine Air. Tap a dot.
Vedado Historic DistrictCollege Park Historic DistrictCentral Park Historic DistrictProspect Park-Southland Park Historic DistrictFlamingo Park Historic Residential DistrictClifton Rice House

Closest to Pine Air

Vedado Historic DistrictWest Palm Beach · District3miCollege Park Historic DistrictLake Worth Beach · District3.5miCentral Park Historic DistrictWest Palm Beach · District3.7miProspect Park-Southland Park Historic DistrictWest Palm Beach · District3.8miFlamingo Park Historic Residential DistrictWest Palm Beach · District3.8mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Vedado Historic District’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Pine Air?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Pine Air’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old place
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Palm Springs📜 Lake Clarke Shores📜 Glen Ridge📜 Haverhill
The coffee’s on

Where to, neighbor?

You’re in Pine Air, FLView boundary

Nearby

All towns & citiesExplore the map

Local begins with a boundary.

See what belongs to your selected town.

Loading boundary…

Pine Air is your selected town. The feed includes posts assigned to this town, not a distance radius or ZIP code.

Neighborhoods narrow the feed further, while townwide announcements, events, and issues remain visible.

Boundary source: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/19 · 2025-01-01
Open detailed map