BE WARNED! I was driving over this bridge today and as you get closer to it, the speed limit drops…read morefrom 60 to 50 and as you crest the bridge, the speed limit is 35 miles per hour. And wouldn't you know, hanging out in the median on the northwest side of the bridge watching the travelers heading from Palm Beach towards Okeechobee was a Martin County Sheriff with his radar gun pointing at the few cars zipping by at 7:30 AM. I was expecting it, so I was only going 40. But I'm sure one of his colleagues is out there waiting for you if you're speeding! It's a nice enough bridge, smooth ride, but the barriers are too high to actually be able to see anything. Bummer, because the Okeechobee Waterway is quite the engineering achievement!

This marker is part of the Florida Historical Marker Program, one of the Division of Historical…read moreResources' most popular and valued public history programs. It raises awareness of Florida's cultural history while enhancing the enjoyment of historic sites for residents and tourists. The blue historic markers tell the stories of the people and places that were important to Florida's history and they can be found in front of churches, schools, roads, archaeological sites, battlefields, cemeteries, and historic buildings like this one. Historic marker F-1024 was installed in front of the Seminole Inn in 2017 by the GFWC Woman's Club of Stuart, and the Florida Department of State. This marker is about the remarkable life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee (April 27, 1923 - January 14, 2011). Betty Mae was born in a camp near this marker in Indiantown, Florida to Ada Tiger a Seminole from the Snake clan and Abe Partan, a French trapper. When she was born intermarriage was so discouraged by the Seminoles that both she and her brother were in danger of being cast out into the Everglades to die. Before that could happen, her great-uncle moved the family to the Dania reservation in Broward County, where the government was able to protect the children. Betty Mae wanted to learn to read and write but none of the segregated schools in Florida would accept her. At the age of 14 she decided to enroll in a federal Indian boarding school in Cherokee, North Carolina, along with her cousin Mary and younger brother. She became the first Florida Seminole to learn to read and write English, and in 1945, the first to graduate from high school. In 1946 Betty Mae graduated from the Kiowa Indian Hospital nursing school in Oklahoma. She then returned to Florida where she did field training and married Moses Jumper. After the couples children died young, they adopted two Seminole children. She would spend the next 40 years working to improve healthcare for the Seminole tribe. She would travel through the swamps with another nurse to give children their first vaccines. In 1956 Bettie Mae co-founded the Seminole News. It was the Tribe's first newspaper. It was later replaced by the Seminole Tribune where she served as editor for several years. In 1967 Betty Mae was elected as the first and so far the only female chairperson of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. She also served as communication director for the tribe. In 1970, she was one of two women appointed by President Richard M. Nixon to the National Congress on Indian Opportunity. She went on to serve on the council for a total of 16 years. She took the tribe from bankruptcy when she was elected to a reserve of $500,000. In 1997 Betty Mae was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native American Journalists Association. In 2001 she published her memoir, entitled A Seminole Legend. Betty Mae was the last surviving matriarch of the Snake clan when she died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 88 on January 14, 2011 in Hollywood, Florida.

This marker is located along the main road that passes through Indiantown and is in a small space…read morenext to the Seminole Inn. It points out the history of a woman who went on to do great things and to lead her people. The marker has the same text on both sides. It reads, "Born in 1923, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was the first Chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, elected in 1967. She spent her early life with her parents, Ada Tiger and Abe Partan, at the Seminole camp in Indiantown. Tribal medicine men threatened to put Jumper to death because her father was white. "I was a half breed. An evil one," she explained. To protect their children, the family relocated to the reservation in Dania. Segregation laws barred Seminoles from attending Florida schools. At age 14 Jumper was sent to an Indian boarding school in Cherokee, North Carolina. She was the first Florida Seminole to learn to read and write English, and the first to graduate from high school. She graduated from nursing school in Oklahoma in 1946, and spent 40 years improving and modernizing healthcare for the Seminole community. She co-founded the Seminole News in 1956, the Tribe's first newspaper. In 1994, Florida State University awarded Jumper an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. A gifted Tribal storyteller, Jumper authored And With the Wagon Came God's Word, Legends of the Seminole, and a memoir with Patsy West, A Seminole Legend. She died in 2011, at age 88, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper walked on, leaving an enduring legacy." There is room to stop here and read the marker. It is number F-1024 and it was erected in 2017 by The GFWC Woman's Club of Stuart, and the Florida Department of State. [Review 441 of 2025 - 2084 in Florida - 24003 overall]

The best office you can go to for all your needs . Definitely way better than Greenacres . The…read morestaff is alert & very quick , I loved the lady in the front her energy was persistent and definitely on GO ! . I recommend this place over 10000 times you're in and out and people are VERY VERY HELPFUL AND PATIENT . Down to the people who do the road tests ! Keep up the Awesome work and may God bless every single one of you in that office . Thank you for this awesome experience

There's a new tax collector's office in PBG. They must have dropped tens of millions on the…read moreconstruction. It's insane that they only oversight of these pple have is the state govt, so be careful when you vote. No one locally can tell the tax collector to behave. What a charmed life these pple have... Management never allows the public into the building & instead You need to wait 1.5 weeks + to get an appt. Very orderly, beautiful and limited stress for the tax collector staff. Next time you vote for this entrenched bureaucrat remember that there are ZERO walk-in appts. You'll be driving up to Hobe sound while the PBC tax collector bureaucrats saddle us with debt to pay for their beautiful empty A/Ced palace.

David, the manager was really friendly and welcomed everyone waiiting in line inside promptly upon…read moreopening the doors. Instructions were given in a friendly and clear manner and i was in and out of there with my appointment within 20 minutes

No new phone number on line. After repeated calls to Social Security at a variety of phone numbers…read morefound on line, in letters written to me by Social Security and in my on line Social Security account and being on the phone on hold for an hour to two hours at a time over a period of a week, I finally drive over an hour to the local Port St. Lucie office. I needed to update my address and the account on line would not permit me to do that. I then found that my Social Security benefits were suspended for failing to update my address. Once I arrived at the Port St. Lucie office I found a security guard at the door handing out a number to call to make an appointment. No appointments could be made in person. The telephone number handed out is not the phone number on the website. After three disconnected calls to that number I was advised by the security guard that the phone automatically disconnects with no notice if a SS rep is not available within 17 minutes. I called the number 866-366-1627 one lat time before leaving the vestibule of the So Ila Security Office and was finally connected at 16 minutes out. I have no complaint about the social security representative. The rep resolved my issue and updated my address. Improvement MUST be made in representative availability and communication. So frustrating. Had I not gone on line to check my account I would not have known that my social security benefits had been suspended. The benefits are how I pay for Medicare so I could have also lost my Medicare benefits.

In the area and found out the Passport office here offers Free Passport photos for Veterans and…read moredecided to take advantage of the offer. The City Hall Receptionist was very knowledgeable and very helpful. She had me scan the QR code to secure a place in line to get our photos. The waiting area is in front of the City Council Chambers and we waited until our number was called. The Passport associate was pleasant and took us in to the photo area to take and process our pictures. A very pleasant experience!

We stopped by this passport office to get some information. It's located within the city hall…read more You put yourself in the queue and you get a number. The office has a sign telling you who they're waiting on and letting you know when they are ready for you -- and to which window you should go. There are two service windows open to the waiting area and another one through a closed door. We were able to pick up the right foms and have some questions answered. We needed some new photos so we had these done here, as well. As a veteran, my husbands's photos were free. Mine cost $15. They only take checks or money orders. No cash or credit cards are accepted. This was such a nice service to offer here. It was so much faster with much less hassle than dealing with a larger municipality or post office.

This historical marker in Sewall Point marks where the Sewall home, dock, and pineapple fields once…read morestood. The marker was placed by the town of Sewall's Point which is located on Sewall's Peninsula, named for Henry Sewall who once owned it. Sewall came to the area with his wife Abbie in 1889 after they were awarded land including this peninsula in a land grant from the King of Spain in 1823. Sewall built a home and post office that operated until 1918. He built a dock that everyone who was traveling the Indian River north or south stopped at. He cleared the land and used it to grow pineapples. During the turn of the century settlers came to the area and built homes out of salvaged lumber from shipwrecks. Henry Sewall served as a Dade County commissioner in 1893 and as a state representative from 1894 to 1895. In the 1940's trailer parks started popping up in the area. In response to the development, the Sewall's Point Association was created in the 1950's to control the zoning on the peninsula and keep it a residential community. Efforts were led by Dr. Elvin Killheffer who became the towns first mayor when the town of Sewall Point received it's charter on June 12, 1957. Today the land that was once Sewall's home, dock, and pineapple fields is a luxury housing development.

Worth the wait, very helpful. Thought it would be one of many calls, but just the one call took…read morecare of everything.

Came in today & I get it's a social security office & they are there to do their job... but I felt…read morea little put on blast. My mother helped me fill out an applications so I had no idea what address she wrote. After it was printed out I realized they she put her address instead of mine. I had no idea til I was printed out. The lady kind of made it seem like I should have known which I get, but also it took an extra 30 second. I don't think it was that big of a deal. Otherwise, great service, quick & efficient.

I had my Oath Ceremony today and I was very disappointed when they announced they had a special…read moremessage, with a change in their tone to almost disappointment. When the video message came up and it was The President of the United States, I actually heard a few people sigh. The POTUS should be treated with the respect that the position deserves, no matter the political party they represent, especially at this event. What does this teach new Americans, definitely not respect for the country that they have just become citizens of nor respect for US law, order and government officials. Regardless of who the POTUS is, I would introduce him with all the respect this position deserves.

This is a review of the building. Hopefully my experience can help guide others, since I don't…read morebelieve there is a direct way to contact this office via phone. My family and I visited U.S.C.I.S. for a citizenship ceremony. We were among the last to arrive and the parking lot was nearly full. If you're visiting for one of these... arrive a few minutes early to allow time for parking! We were uncertain how many people each person could bring, but no one was counting. There were A LOT of family members in attendance, of all ages, and most people were very dressed up. We all had to go through a security check. There is a severe lack of information here! A small sign said to remove keys, wallet and another item, but in reality people removed belts and jewelry and purses. I watched a woman remove her shoes, but I was not asked to do so. I had to remove my son from his stroller in order to send it through the checkpoint. We just wanted to get inside. Allow extra time to get through security. We stood in two rooms - the initial room where all the about-to-be-citizens checked in and waited, and the ceremony room. Both were crowded with standing room only. In the ceremony room, guests were pressed together, and it was very difficult to move and keep children still. The room temperature heated up quickly, and parents trying to escape with crying children had trouble getting through the packed room to the exit door. I was impressed by the amount of countries represented during the ceremony: 32. A video about the immigration history in the U.S. brought tears to my eyes, I must admit. This was an emotional ceremony for many. In general, this building seemed modern and clean. Besides the gruff security staff, the other staff members were pretty friendly. The person who read through all of the ceremony info joked around and made us all laugh. I found it amusing that USCIS has a board listing the hashtags they'd like everyone to use! Photos were restricted inside the first waiting room, but were encouraged inside the ceremony room. Folks lingered afterwards to take pictures. There were several banners and areas for photo ops inside.