Pompano Beach is the second oldest municipality in Broward County, having been incorporated in 1908.

"That year, on June 6, thirty-one qualified voters convened at the Florida East Coast Railway depot and initiated a new period of community growth when they resolved that the Town of Pompano be created.

"In an election where only men could vote, the town's founding fathers designated John R. Mizell, a onetime customs collector from Pensacola, mayor and police judge; J.K. Peacock, proprietor of a general store at what is now Flagler Avenue and First Street, council president; and George L. Blount, Sr., clerk. Council members included E. Rogers, J.K. Howell, D. Smith and A. W. Turner. Since the Town of Pompano was then a part of Dade County, Blount's first mission was to travel to Miami on July 3, 1908, in order to file a copy of the proceedings with Circuit Court Clerk J.T. Merritt in Dade County Courthouse."

(Excerpted from "Pompano in Perspective" by Marlyn Kemper)