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Folk Lore, Pioneers, Stories, and Memories
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Town Times Features:
Short stories selected for Town Times editions
- The Ancient Indians: exerpted from a submission by Richard Procyk
Folk-Lore:
A group of colorful stories
- Prohibition in Jupiter: A short story about Al Capone
- Ashley Gang and Frontier Justice: the Jesse James of Florida
- Early 1970's - A candid story about early Jupiter
- Unlikely Friends - Trapper Nelson and Judge Chillingsworth
- What's in a Name?
- The Story of Jupiter and its Neighbors
- Did You Know?
Police Stories:
Shared by active and retired Jupiter police officers
- Major E. K. Humphrey: A true hero who died in the line of duty
- Florida Panther Patrols Jupiter Park of Commerce
- K-9 Lion?
- Pursuit in Salhaven
- Collision in Chief's Police Unit
- History of the Jupiter Police Cadets (Explorer Post 712)
- Jupiter Police Cadet gets English Welcome.
- Jr. Police Cadet Program begins 1972
Memories:
As shared by some Jupiter Pioneers
- H. D. (Eddie) Bivens: Remembering Jupiter
- Bob "Nik" Nahikian: Jupiter and Jupiter Again - USCG LorSta Jupiter, FL December 1971
- Wilson Horne: My Supernatural Jupiter Experience - Presented at the Pioneer Coffee on 27 Apr 2005
- Kelly Oglesby: Remembered by Wilson Horne - Presented at the Pioneer Coffee on 28 Apr 2004
- Edward Moseley: Jupiter High School's first football team - submitted Historical Document on-line
- Early Jupiter memories by David Rousseau
- Trapper Nelson, A Remembrance by James Carr
Pioneer Stories:
Stories of local Pioneers and their families.
- Archaeologist shows proof of early explorers at Dubois Park
- Charles H. Coe (Historian, Author, Entrepreneur, Newspaper man, Photographer and much more)
- Dora Doster Utz (with permission of Historical Association of South Florida)
- Roy S. Rood
- A Tribute to the Rood Family a story by Betty Bush Beacon News 1966
- W. H. Gleason
Town tid-bits:
Information you want to know about Jupiter.
- Source Books for Jupiter History Web
- Palm Beach County - Jupiter Attractions
- Early Jupiter Pioneer Listings
- Postcards and Memorabilia