Jensen Beach, Florida Jensen Beach, Florida Fire Rescue Station 16 on Savanna Road serves Jensen Beach First Baptist Church, Jensen Beach Jensen Beach Community Church Jensen Sea Turtle Beach Tabebuia off Savanna Road in Jensen Beach, April 2010, typical of such trees blooming throughout Martin County in the spring Jacaranda off Savanna Road in Jensen Beach, May 2010.
Royal Poinciana off Savanna Road in Jensen Beach, May 2010.
Jensen Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Martin County, Florida, United States.
Ocean Breeze is an incorporated town positioned inside unincorporated Jensen Beach.
"Jensen" originally meant the region immediately adjoining to modern-day downtown Jensen Beach.
Jensen Beach was rated the "Top Spot for Beach Volleyball" in 2008 by the "Prime Time Magazine", and is a part of the Treasure Coast which derives its name from the ships that wrecked amid the 17th century because of coral reefs in the shallow waters.
Jensen Beach is an unincorporated town, governed by County Commissioners.
Martin County is divided into five districts; Jensen Beach is represented by Doug Smith as part of District 1.
The chief enhance beach in Jensen Beach is on Hutchinson Island and is called Jensen Sea Turtle Beach.
Jensen Beach is known in the marine biology improve for being a locale for sea turtles to nest.
Designated sections of the Jensen Sea Turtle Beach are barricaded off in order to protect the nests of the sea turtles.
The history of Jensen Beach in the 19th century revolved around pineapple farming.
John Laurence Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark, appeared in 1881, and set up his pineapple plantation, which became the town of Jensen.
By 1894, the Florida East Coast Railway reached Jensen Beach, and freight shipments were loaded directly onto the freight cars.
By 1895, Jensen was called the "Pineapple Capital of the World," shipping over one million boxes of pineapples each year amid the June and July season To help handle the increased pineapple production, a pineapple factory was built.
Two fires, in 1908 and 1910, finished most of Jensen Beach and its remaining pineapple farms.
The pineapple has turn into a motif of Jensen Beach.
The fruit impact is jubilated annually amid the Jensen Beach Pineapple Festival. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Jensen Beach Jensen Beach Christian Church in downtown Jensen Downtown Jensen Beach is the site of the annual Pineapple Festival. Jensen Beach High School.The 2006 Florida Teacher of the Year, Connie Dahn, teaches there.
As of September 10, 2010, Jensen Beach once again has its own newspaper, the no-charge Pineapple Post. All Saints Episcopal Church erected in 1898 is the earliest church building in Jensen Beach as well as in Martin County.
Jensen Beach Christian Church assembled in 1910-1912 According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Jensen Beach has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jensen Beach, Florida.
"Jensen Beach Pineapple Festival".
Climate Summary for Jensen Beach, Florida
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