Last week I mentioned that the "first severe hurricane that many of the early Pompano settlers experienced was in 1906."

Although that may be true, depending on one's definition of "severe," it seems that a hurricane in 1903 caused some damage in Pompano -- it is said that the settlement's original schoolhouse (a small one-room, wood-frame structure) was destroyed in that storm.

Records indicate that a Category 1 hurricane came ashore just south of Jupiter on September 11, 1903. Winds were recorded at 84 miles per hour.