Juno Beach, Florida

Juno Beach takes its name from the Roman goddess Juno, a fitting companion to neighboring Jupiter, whose own name came from the king of the Roman gods. The original pioneer town of Juno, a little farther inland, rose to prominence in the late 1800s when it became the southern terminus of the Celestial Railroad, the Jupiter & Lake Worth Railway, in 1889. When Henry Flagler's railroad bypassed the town, that early settlement faded, and the beach itself stayed wild and unsettled for decades.

The modern town began in 1933, when Swedish immigrants Oscar and Hulda Erikson became the beach's first residents and opened the Juno Beach Tourist Camp of cabin rentals on the oceanfront dunes. Bessemer Properties platted the subdivision in 1948, dredging Pelican Lake and adding the town's fishing pier in 1950, and residents voted to incorporate the Town of Juno Beach on June 4, 1953, with about 130 year-round residents. In the decades since, the town has become a conservation leader, home to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center and the protected sea turtle nesting beach that defines it today.