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This wonderful sight greeted passersby and motorists driving through Fort Pierce. The Dairy Queen ice cream store stood on the corner of Tenth Street and Orange Avenue for decades, and customers stopped in at all hours to enjoy the variety of treats and sandwiches that longtime Fort Pierce residents still remember. WAUGH FAMILY PHOTOS

WE ALL SCREAMED

There’s hardly a person who lived in Fort Pierce between the 1950s and 1990s who doesn’t remember stopping off at the Dairy Queen — on the corner of Tenth Street and Orange Avenue — for a tasty ice cream treat.

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For most of the 1960s, the waters of Martin County’s rivers were pristine enough for swimming and waterskiing. LARRY CRARY

Wonder years

In summertime, our nights were filled with stars. The rest of the year we had all the bright lights of a major city without humongous buildings and hordes of people. In the 1960s, flower farms galore gave sparsely populated Martin County its claim to being the Chrysanthemum Capital of the World.

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The Stuart Times of May 8, 1914, provides the details of the City of Stuart’s incorporation, 11 years before Martin County was created. STUART NEWS

Press on

Martin County’s lucky stars lined up when illness brought Edwin Menninger to the St. Lucie River Region, changing its journalistic future forever.

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The end of the Ashley Gang came the night of Nov. 1, 1924, when John Ashley, his nephew Hanford Mobley and Ray Lynn and Clarence Middleton were gunned down on the Sebastian River bridge. ELLIOTT MUSEUM

Family Business

The Ashley Gang was Florida’s most notorious crime family of the 20th century, using a tiny community now in Martin County as its base of operations.

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Rio St. Lucie, platted on March 27, 1925, is a perfect example of a boom time subdivision. RIO CIVIC CLUB Rio St. Lucie, platted on March 27, 1925, is a perfect example of a boom time subdivision.

The places we call home

Jensen was designated a post office on April 17, 1890. Four years later, with the coming of Henry Flagler’s railway, John L. Jensen subdivided a portion of his homestead as the Town of Jensen. Pineapple growing and commercial fishing were the main industries.

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