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Manalapan is a town in
Palm Beach County Palm Beach County is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's third-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and Broward County and the 24th-most populous in the United States, wi ...
, Florida, United States. It is part of the
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of
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. The population was 419 at the 2020 United States census.


History

United States President
Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a ...
granted George H. K. Carter a homestead in 1889 on the yet unnamed land. In 1931, the sparsely populated settlement was incorporated by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt as the "Town of Manalapan". A large share of the first settlers being natives of Manalapan, New Jersey caused the name to be selected. One of the most puzzling mysteries in Florida history was the disappearance of Circuit Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie, who left a friend's home on the night of June 14, 1955, en route to their oceanfront cottage in Manalapan. It was established five years later that the couple were murdered by hitmen hired by one of Curtis Chillingworth's fellow judges. The Chillingworths were thrown overboard from a boat into the ocean with lead weights strapped to their legs; their bodies were never recovered. The U.S. presidential yacht '' Sequoia'' was auctioned at the La Coquille Club in Manalapan on May 18, 1977, during the
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, for
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286,000 as a symbolic cutback in Federal Government spending (annual cost to the U.S. Navy was $800,000) and to reduce signs of an "imperial presidency". A 22-acre property in Manalapan was purchased by Larry Ellison in 2022 for $173 million, making it the most expensive home sale in Florida history. The property spans A1A and is connected by a series of tunnels under the road.


Geography

The approximate coordinates for the Town of Manalapan is located at . Manalapan is a small beach side community. It is bordered on the north by the bridge, beach access road and beach for the Town of
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; on the west by the Lake Worth Lagoon; on the south by the South Lake Worth Inlet (known locally as "Boynton Inlet"); and on the east by the
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. According to the
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, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (81.48%) is water.


Climate

The Town of Manalapan has a
tropical climate Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of or higher in the coolest month, featuring hot te ...
, similar to the climate found in much of the
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. It is part of the only region in the 48 contiguous states that falls under that category. More specifically, it generally has a
tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...
(
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: ''Aw''), bordering a
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(Köppen climate classification: ''Am'').


Demographics


2010 and 2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 419 people, 162 households, and 105 families residing in the town. As of the 2010 United States census, there were 406 people, 152 households, and 104 families residing in the town.


2000 census

As of the census of 2000, there were 321 people, 167 households, and 107 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 271 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 98.13%
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(95% were
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), 1.56% Asian, and 0.31%
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.
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or Latino residents of any race were 3.12% of the population. As of 2000, there were 167 households, out of which 9.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.9% were married couples living together, 2.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.9% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.92 and the average family size was 2.33. In 2000, 7.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 2.2% was from 18 to 24, 13.4% from 25 to 44, 35.8% from 45 to 64, and 40.8% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 61 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the town was $127,819, and the median income for a family was $117,051. Males had a median income of over $100,000 versus $36,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $143,729. About 3.7% of families and 5.9% of the population were below the
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, including none of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over. Those who spoke only English at home accounted for 98.54% of the population, while French was a home language of 1.45%.


Notable people

* F. Lee Bailey, criminal defense attorney * Geoff Brabham, race car driver; IMSA GTP champion * Curtis Chillingworth, Circuit Judge, Palm Beach, Florida; murdered with his wife Marjorie in 1955 * Larry Ellison, purchaser of the most expensive home in Florida for $173 million in 2022 * Gloria Guinness, wife of Loel Guinness, Mexican socialite and fashion icon *
Thomas "Loel" Guinness Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988) was a British politician, Royal Air Force officer, business magnate and philanthropist. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1931–1945) ...
, member of the Guinness beer family who made his own fortune in banking and real estate *
Sean Hannity Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American conservative television presenter, broadcaster and writer. He hosts ''The Sean Hannity Show'', a radio syndication, nationally syndicated talk radio show, has hosted a Hannity, sel ...
, television and radio political commentator * Don King, boxing promoter * Charles Peter McColough, former
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chairman and CEO; his family had an oceanfront estate in Manalapan for nearly 50 years * Generoso Pope Jr., founded ''
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'' * Lois Pope, philanthropist/widow of Generoso Pope Jr. * Hal Prewitt, past Town Commissioner, artist, photographer, race car driver, inventor of personal computer products and early pioneer in the
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* Tony Robbins, self-help guru; relocated to Manalapan in 2013 *
Yanni Yiannis Chryssomallis (; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni ( ), is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer. Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child, blending jazz, clas ...
, musician, lives in oceanfront home


References


External links

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