The Boca Raton City Council rejected a proposal to build homes on filled-in cove land. Property owner William Swaim, known ...

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Glades Road in Boca Raton and Interstate 95 connections to it ... according to Florida 511, which maps closures. Authorities reopened the roads before mid-afternoon.

The term was navigational, used on early European maps to describe a jagged inlet along the coast, according to the Boca Raton Historical Society. The original location of Boca de Ratones was ...

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Founded as a small resort town, Boca Raton has evolved significantly over the last century. Its name, which first appeared on sixteenth-century maps as "Boca de Ratones," provides a glimpse into ...

It was around 1925 that Addison Mizner, a famous architect whose namesake is found across the city, not only discovered Boca Raton but decided to “put us quite literally on the map,” Gillis said.