Editor’s note: This story, which originally ran in the Palm Beach Post in July 2017, has been edited for clarity.
A very special place, just north of Jupiter in southern Martin County and spanning roughly 10,500 acres, has not one but three different links to history. It’s Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Dickinson figures both at the beginning and these days, with the U.S. Army in between.
The site of a shipwreck and encounter with hostile natives
In 1696, Dickinson, a Quaker merchant, was on a business trip from his Jamaica plantation to Philadelphia. His ship, Reformation, ran aground in a storm near what’s now Jupiter…