Children from the Lantana Hypoluxo School sit
on the Around the World float during a May Day 1923 celebration.
Lantana Elementary School students crowd around a 1935 American LaFrance fire engine
in this photo, one of about 25 images on display at the Hypoluxo Professional Center
as part of an exhibit created by the Lantana Historical Society.
By Willie Howard
Photos from Lantana’s history are on display at the Hypoluxo Professional Center as part of a new exhibit produced by the Lantana Historical Society.
The exhibit is displayed in the hallways of the office complex at 1111 Hypoluxo Road.
The permanent historical exhibit is free and open to the public during business hours, Monday through Friday.
About 25 copies of original images, many of them donated to the historical society by pioneer families, are on display. Viewers can scan QR codes with smartphones to hear descriptions of each photo.
The Lantana Historical Society’s president, Rosemary Mouring, said images in the exhibit include the town’s first house on South Lake Drive, built by town founder Morris Lyman; the old wooden schoolhouse on the east end of what is now Lantana Road; and a fourth-grade class at Lantana Elementary School inspecting a 1935 American LaFrance fire engine.
Other images on display show the town’s train depot torn apart by the 1928 hurricane; Anderson’s Ostrich and Alligator Farm, a popular tourist attraction in the early 1900s; and children seated on an Around the World float as part of the May Day celebration at the Lantana Hypoluxo School in 1923.
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