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Jensen Beach, FL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Jensen Beach a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Jensen Beach Home page. The Jensen Beach Home page provides as much information as possible on Jensen Beach. Knowing Jensen Beach’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Jensen Beach’s Home page, you will also find Jensen Beach’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Jensen Beach has a population of 13592. 52.5% of Jensen Beach’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.5 are female. 42.3% of Jensen Beach is married and 68.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $246,872, and the average rent is $984. Household median income in Jensen Beach is $55,430, and the individual median income is $31,842. Jensen Beach’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.5%), Hispanic(11%), Black(3.1%), Asian(1.9%), Other(0.6%), Multiple(0.5%), Native(0.4%).
The history of Jensen Beach in the 19th century revolved around pineapple farming. John Laurence Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark, arrived in 1881, and set up his pineapple plantation, which became the town of Jensen. By 1894, the Florida East Coast Railway reached Jensen Beach, and freight shipments were loaded directly onto the freight cars. By 1895, Jensen was called the "Pineapple Capital of the World", shipping over one million boxes of pineapples each year during the June and July season.
To help handle the increased pineapple production, a pineapple factory was built, but a hard freeze in 1895 devastated most of the small pineapple plantations. Two fires, in 1908 and 1910, destroyed most of Jensen Beach and its remaining pineapple farms. The industry finally collapsed in 1920 due to a wide variety of financial and agriculture problems.
Growers decided to turn their efforts in another direction: raising citrus fruits. The pineapple has become a symbol of Jensen Beach. The fruit legacy is celebrated annually during the Jensen Beach Pineapple Festival.Jensen Beach was incorporated as "Jensen" in 1926 during the Florida Land Boom, but was dissolved seven years later by the State of Florida in 1933 following the onset of the Great Depression.
The town's name was officially changed to "Jensen Beach" by Martin County in 1943.In the second half of the 1900s, Saint Joseph College of Florida and later the Florida Institute of Technology both located on the Mansion at Tuckahoe premises in Jensen Beach. In 2004 Jensen Beach was hit by two hurricanes.
On September 5, 2004, Hurricane Frances made landfall at Hutchinson Island with winds of 105 miles per hour (169 km/h). On September 25, 2004, Hurricane Jeanne made landfall on Hutchinson Island with winds of 120 miles per hour (190 km/h).
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