The new Boca Raton Garden Club ornament highlights the
The Boca Raton Garden Club released its 18th annual holiday ornament, a commemoration of the Pearl City section of the city.
The Garden Club’s 24-karat-gold-plated 2011 ornament depicts the Tree of Knowledge, a huge banyan on Northeast 12th Street that was a gathering place in the black community started in 1915.
The Boca Raton subdivision, designated a historic district in 2002, is along the Florida East Coast Railway tracks north of downtown.
The ornament, which sells for $16, was presented to City Council Nov. 22 and sales started at the tree-lighting ceremony Nov. 25.
See www.bocaratongardenclub.org for more information.
— Margie Plunkett
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