Hobe Sound

Hobe Sound, South East Florida, is near the north end of Jupiter’s Island. At its rear door is the Treasure Coast, at its front door, the Gold Coast. Nearby Jupiter Island acts and has acted as a major influence. Wealthy winter residents from Jupiter Island used to arrive by train to make commercial transactions. Jupiter Island and Hobe Sound have since moved on, but this early relationship established ties between the two communities.

The community of Hobe Sound is an unincorporated village founded by Europeans by 1699. Jonathan Dickinson was forced to land there when the British ship he was on, the Reformation, sank off its coast. Attempts to learn the name of the area resulted in the name of Hobe. The area definitely bore the name Hobe Sound by the year 1699.

In 1815, a Spanish government land grant gave the land, including nearby Jupiter Island to Don Eusebio. He promptly began to sell it off in parcels. Joseph Delespine bought a large section at one-dollar per acre. The land did not develop quickly until the early 1900s when the railroad made its appearance along the coast of Florida. The result was tourism, industries and employment for the area and surrounding.

In one mad decade, the Roaring Twenties, Hobe Sound became part of the general insanity. A company, Olympia Improvement Corporation, decided to turn Hobe Sound into one vast motion picture lot. Even the name Hobe sound was to change, briefly, to “Picture City.” The boom crashed and a hurricane roared through the town, ripping up streets and rending buildings. Today, the only vestige of this aspect of Hobe Sound echoes in certain street names.

Hobe Sound, Florida, has three major features or attractions: the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, the Hobe Sound Nature Center and the Jonathan Dickinson State Park. At Hobe Sound beaches, one of the main attractions is the surf. At the public beach in Hobe Sound, the surf has risen as high as six feet. The nearby waters also make deep sea fishing in Hobe Sound popular. In Hobe Sound, Florida, deep sea fishing is part of the communities heritage. They celebrate with a major fishing tournament in August. Common fish caught include bluefish, finger mullet, pompano, snook and Spanish mackerel.

If you want a piece of Hobe Sound real estate, you will have to talk to local real estate agents. There are a few new developments along the Intracoastal Waterway.