Although we often associate the Hillsboro Lighthouse with Pompano Beach (consider how many Pompano Beach organizations and businesses use the lighthouse image in their logos), for the first decades of its existence, the lighthouse personnel were more closely linked to Deerfield.

The Hillsboro Inlet bridge was not constructed until the mid-1920s. Until that time the only land connection from the lighthouse was a small service road that ran north to the Deerfield area.