The revitalized park will immerse visitors in a landscape of native Florida plants and numerous recreational areas, teach new generations to understand the past, and encourage the Palm Beach community to protect the places that make our town special.
A key component of this project will be the relocation of the Little Red Schoolhouse, Southeast Florida’s first schoolhouse and the oldest landmark in Palm Beach, to a higher elevation near the dune, where it will be protected from frequent flooding and high winds. This relocation will ensure that the schoolchildren of Palm Beach County have continuous access to the Preservation Foundation’s living history program, which takes fourth graders back in time to receive an 1890s education for a day and experience what it would have been like to study in a one-room wooden schoolhouse.
The Schoolhouse will be adjacent to the brand-new Coastal Restoration Center, a nursery and propagation facility for native plants that will support healthy beach dune ecosystems within the park and throughout the town.