Boca Raton is a highly desirable community known for it's abundance of ammenities and beauty located along the warm Atlantic coastline. You'll find lots of events taking place in and around the Boca Raton area from boating, golfing, tennis, fishing, shopping, festivals, art shows, sporting events, and anything else you can imagine. It's all here. 

Listed on early maps as "Boca Ratones," many people wrongly assume the name is simply translated to "Rat’s Mouth." The Spanish word boca (or mouth) was often used to describe an inlet, while raton (literally mouse) was used by Spanish sailors to describe rocks that gnawed at a ship's cable, or as a term for a cowardly thief.^[1][2] The name Boca Ratones originally appeared on eighteenth century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay area of Miami. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north on most maps and applied to Lake Boca Raton, whose inlet was closed at the time. The Spanish pronunciation has been retained by locals; "Boca Raton" rhymes with "tone" and "alone" (not with "baton").

The Boca Raton Resort & Club Tower

The city's early history was as the site of Addison Mizner's Boca Raton Hotel, its most prominent building. The "pink hotel" today is visible from miles away as a towering building on the Intracoastal Waterway. The Pearl City neighborhood of Boca Raton was established to originally house the service personnel for the hotel. Japanese farmers of the Yamato Colony converted the land west of the city into pineapple plantations beginning in 1904. During World War II much of their land was confiscated and used as the site of a major training facility for B-29 bomber crews. Much of the airbase was later donated to become the grounds of Florida Atlantic University, many of whose parking lots are former runways of the airbase, while part of the airbase is now used as Boca Raton Airport. The Japanese heritage of the Yamato Colony survives in the name of Yamato Road (NW 51st Street) just north of the airport and at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens northwest of the city.

A Local Introduction

As a real estate professional, Terry believes it is not only her duty, but a privilege to introduce people to the Boca Raton area and help them make the most of living here. She also knows that finding your new home is just one of the tasks that face you when you're relocating. Her goal is to coordinate everything as smoothly and efficiently as possible here, while you're wrapping up the final details of packing up and moving out of your current home.