It is easy to forget that the people who first came to this area brought with them historical memories of events we consider far, far in the past. One way to understand this is to imagine a historical event happening today, and project back to other events.

If Pompano Beach was incorporated today (2006):

The Florida East Coast Railway would have arrived in 1994.
The Civil War would have ended in 1963.
Florida would have become a state in 1943.
The Dade Massacre beginning the Second Seminole War would have occurred in 1933.
The United States would have purchased Florida from Spain in 1919.

Thus, it is not hard to see that there would be many people in early Pompano who had clear memories of the Civil War. Some old-timers may have remembered when Florida was still a territory and the Seminole Wars raged throughout the peninsula. It's even possible that one or two residents were born when Florida was still a Spanish colony.