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Martin County, Florida

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14historic places

—earliest paper

1925formed

158,431pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Stuart, Jensen Beach, Hobe Sound.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Martin titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Burn Brae Plantation-Krueger House	Stuart	Building	2002
Cypress Lodge	Port Mayaca	Building	2008
Gate House	Jupiter Island	Building	2001
Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site	Stuart	Site	2006
Golden Gate Building	Stuart	Building	2017
House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar	Stuart	Building	1974
Lyric Theatre	Stuart	Building	1993
Martin County Court House, Old	Stuart	Building	1997
Mount Elizabeth Archeological Site	Jensen Beach	Site	2002
Olympia School	Hobe Sound	Building	2002
Seminole Inn	Indiantown	Building	2006
Stuart Welcome Arch	Jensen Beach	Structure	2004
Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District	Hobe Sound	District	2006
Tuckahoe	Jensen Beach	Building	2005

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Martin was formed in 1925 (1925-08-04) from Palm Beach, St.

MARTIN created from PALM BEACH and ST. LUCIE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Martin County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,111	6,295	7,807	16,932	64,014	126,731	158,431

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

3 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
All Saints Cemetery	27.23174	-80.22062
Fern Hill Cemetery	27.18644	-80.25227
Jupiter Cemetery	26.97089	-80.10643

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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