Juno, Florida

Juno's status as the seat of Dade County attracted people and businesses to the town, including The Tropical Sun, which became the first newspaper in South Florida.

[1]: 20  With a larger population than the Biscayne Bay Country communities,[2] residents of the Lake Worth Lagoon region won the special election in February 1889 to move the county seat.

[5]: 335  While many people in the Biscayne Bay Country accepted the results, others threatened violence, causing the Lake Worth Lagoon delegation who arrived to retrieve county records to canoe through the Everglades overnight up to the New River.

[5]: 336 In 1891, Guy Metcalf moved the Indian River News to Juno from Melbourne and renamed the publication The Tropical Sun, which became the first newspaper in South Florida.

[5]: 336 Juno's jailhouse briefly held Sam Lewis, who shot and killed three people in Lemon City in 1895, including Rhett McGregor, considered the first law enforcement officer in Dade County to be murdered while on duty.

[10] The 1896-1897 edition of the Business Directory, Guide and History of Dade County, Fla. estimated that approximately 100 people lived in Juno and predicted that the community would unlikely ever be more than a farming town with a post office.

[12] Former residents and local pioneers erected a monument in the 1930s where the southern terminus of the Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway once stood upon request by Chillingworth, by then a county judge.

[5] Today, a marker stands in Palm Beach Gardens along U.S. Route 1 just north of Florida State Road 786 (PGA Boulevard), which notes that the Daughters of the American Revolution's (DAR) Seminole chapter first constructed it in 1938.

[3] Ivy Julia Cromartie Stranahan, a philanthropist and advocate for the Seminole tribe, noted in an autobiography that she and her family lived in Juno for several years during her childhood, before moving to Lemon City by 1899.