)[4][5] The society also operates the Boca Express Train Museum and organizes the Florida East Coast Railway Station (currently named Count de Hoernle Pavilion) which was restored to offer public tours about its history.

[4] Over the span of a decade, the community started several projects to restore historical areas, including Singing Pines (also known as the Children's Museum), the relocation of the Cabana Club, the Boca Raton Old City Hall, and the F.E.C.

[7] By 1975, the city council of Boca Raton declares the Old Town Hall as a designated site in plans to becoming a historical museum in the future.

[4] The agency entrusted responsibility to the Boca Raton Historical Society for administering and raising funds to restore the railroad station.

[4] By the year 2004, the historical society completed the interior restoration of the Boca Express Train Museum and publicly opens it for the first time.

[11][12] The historical society provides elementary schools their educational program named Ticket to Ride, which offers students various history tours of the Boca Express Train Museum.

[6][15] The society is known for directing their annual celebration of recognized individuals and organizations that have served significance and commitment of improving the lives of Boca Raton citizens called the Walk of Recognition since 1997.

The selected inductees have their name engraved into a black granite star and displayed on the Walk of Recognition memorial at Royal Palm Place.

[17] Approximately 200 manuscripts were collected by the society, including documents of pioneer farmers, developments of historical sites such as the Yamato Colony and Pearl City, and the Boca Raton Army Airfield during World War II.

[17] The society preserves about 2,000 items of artifacts and memorabilia of World War II and including the first invented IBM Personal Computer in Boca Raton.

[17] One of the special pieces the society holds is a Maxwell House coffee can that was salvaged from a merchant ship that had been attacked by a U-boat off the coast of Boca Raton.