POST TIME: Towns that had a brief life in Palm Beach County
Readers: Does Palm Beach County have ghost towns? Sure. Mostly they're municipalities that were swallowed by other cities. Let's revisit such places, as described in previous columns: University Park: It incorporated June 18, 1959 just north of Boca Raton’s Town Center mall. The Arvida development firm had created the "company town" from scratch. It had fewer than 50 families, along with one service station, a commission, and a lone police officer. The legislation that created the town decreed that, by 1971, Arvida had to turn it over to residents for self-government. Residents voted to joi...