Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Golden Gate (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Golden Gate. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Golden Gate is located in Martin County.
To see how the shape of Florida's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Martin County: Glades, Okeechobee, Palm Beach & Saint Lucie.
Below are the counties that are near Golden Gate. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Golden Gate:
- Martin County (The home county of Golden Gate)
- The following are listed by their distance from Golden Gate, with the one closest to Golden Gate listed first.
- Port Salerno
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Sewall's Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Stuart
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Palm City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Rio
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Rio is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
- Ocean Breeze
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ocean Breeze is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Breeze
- Population from the 2020 Census: 413 people
- Former name for Ocean Breeze:
- Ocean Breeze Park
- North River Shores
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- North River Shores is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North River Shores
- Jensen Beach
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Hobe Sound
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jupiter Island
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jupiter Island is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Island
- Population from the 2020 Census: 941 people
- Indiantown
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Port Mayaca
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Indian River County
- The following are listed by their distance from Golden Gate, with the one closest to Golden Gate listed first.
- Florida Ridge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Florida Ridge is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Ridge
- South Beach
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- South Beach is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Beach
- Palm Beach County
- The following are listed by their distance from Golden Gate, with the one closest to Golden Gate listed first.
- Rood ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Rood is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rood
- Limestone Creek
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Limestone Creek is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone Creek
- Tequesta
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Plumoses City ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Plumoses City is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plumoses City
- Fort Jupiter ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Jupiter is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Jupiter
- Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jupiter Inlet Colony
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jupiter Inlet Colony is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Inlet Colony
- Population from the 2020 Census: 451 people
- Jupiter
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Palm Beach Gardens
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Juno Beach
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Juno Ridge
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Juno Ridge is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juno Ridge
- North Palm Beach
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Saint Lucie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Golden Gate, with the one closest to Golden Gate listed first.
- Hutchinson Island South
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Port Saint Lucie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Indian River Estates
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Indian River Estates is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River Estates
- White City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- White City is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Fort Pierce
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Saint Lucie Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
- Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
- Saint Lucie
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
- Lakewood Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Golden Gate, see our County-by-County Page for Golden Gate.
Cemeteries Near Golden Gate ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Golden Gate.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Golden Gate - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Golden Gate covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Golden Gate, with the one closest to Golden Gate listed first.
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- All Saints Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jupiter Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- White City Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ft. Pierce Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Garden of Heavenly Rest
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Port Mayaca Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Royal Palm Memorial Gardens
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Glenwood Memorial Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Golden Gate in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Golden Gate.
- Jupiter
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Golden Gate. See our List of 1890's Communities around Golden Gate.
Newspapers Published in Golden Gate ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Golden Gate.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Golden Gate, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Golden Gate.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Golden Gate:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Martin County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Indian River County
- Palm Beach County
- Saint Lucie County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Golden Gate) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Golden Gate, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |