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Lantana is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The
population was 9,437 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by
the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,389.
History
The first settlers came to the area after Congress passed the Armed Occupation
Act of 1842 at the end of the Seminole Wars during the Administration of
President John Tyler. The M.B. Lyman family is credited with founding the Town.
Lyman arrived with his family in 1888 and within a year started several
enterprises including a general store, Indian Trading Post and a post office. As
postmaster, Lyman named the post office – Lantana Point – for the wild Lantana
plant that grew in abundance in the area. The word Point was later dropped.
One of the other Lyman businesses was the Lantana Fish Company. In the early
1900s the gathering and marketing of oysters became the Town's leading industry.
The Town of Lantana was incorporated in 1921 with 22 residents voting in the
first election. At the time of incorporation, the area of Lantana was one square
mile with a population of 100 residents.
After World War II, Lantana, like the rest of South Florida experienced a
tremendous building boom which continues to this day. Interstate Highway 95,
which was completed through Lantana in the mid-1970s, brought a surge of
commercial development to the Town.
For most of the 1970s and 1980s, Lantana was home to the tradition of hosting
the largest Christmas Tree in the World. Every year, a huge tree would be
shipped from the Pacific Northwest to Lantana by rail to the property of the
National Enquirer, adjacent to the Florida East Coast Railway tracks. The event
would attract thousands of visitors every night, and grew to be one of Palm
Beach Counties most spectacular and celebrated events. The torch went out for
this annual festivity with the death, at the age of 61, of National Enquirer
founder Generoso Pope Jr. in the late 1980s.
Today, the Town of Lantana covers 2.25 square miles and boasts a year round
population of about 10,000 residents. During the winter, the population swells
to around 14,000 residents.
Demographics
There were 3,850 households out of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18
living with them, 43.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families. 31.9% of all
households were made up of individuals and 11.3% had someone living alone who
was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the
average family size was 3.06.
In the town the population was spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 7.2%
from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65
years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there
were 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.4 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $35,645, and the median income
for a family was $40,089. Males had a median income of $29,443 versus $25,050
for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,204. About 5.9% of
families and 8.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.8%
of those under age 18 and 12.6% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, English as a first language accounted for 73.24% of all residents,
while Spanish comprised of 13.95, French Creole made up 6.82%, and Finnish was
the mother tongue of 5.01% of the population (the highest percentage in
Florida.) Also, French was spoken by 0.62% of residents and German was spoken by
0.34% of the populace.
As of 2000, Lantana had the 111th highest percentage of Finns in the US, which
accounted for 5.4% of all residents (tied with two US areas in Michigan,) while
Haitians had the thirty-fifth highest percentage, with 5.20% of the population.