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Mayor Bob Diamond joins with members of the community as the ribbon is cut for Plant Drive Park. The park would provide play areas and ballfields to the residents and their children.

Plant Drive Park opened in 1965 and become a small, but notable location for significant events within the Palm Beach Gardens Community. The Boy Scout Color Guard, Troop 132, included Mark Hathaway and Mickie Pullen, who raised the flag along with…

Children enjoying the playground equipment at Plant Drive Park after it opened in 1965

The American Lutheran Church Board of American Missions bought five acres on Holly Drive in 1962, just behind what was also known as Plant Drive Park. Construction began on the new Nativity Lutheran Church by June of that year, with the founding…

Children enjoying the playground equipment at Plant Drive Park after it opened in 1965; parents looking on with cautious enthusiasm.

Palm Beach Gardens' first recreation director, Woody Dukes, proudly presents the first piece of playground equipment. It was located at Plant Drive Park when it opened in 1965. What the park lacked in equipment was made up for in parental enthusiasm.…