Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Fort Pierce, FL

Fort Pierce is named for the U.S. Army post Fort Pierce, built nearby in 1838 during the Second Seminole War and abandoned a few years later.

One of the oldest communities on Florida's east coast, Fort Pierce was incorporated on February 2, 1901, and has been the hub and county seat of St. Lucie County for over a century.

Known as the 'Sunrise City', Fort Pierce sits on the Treasure Coast, a stretch of shore named for the Spanish treasure fleet wrecked there by a hurricane in 1715.

Until 1970, Fort Pierce was the largest city on Florida's Atlantic coast between Daytona Beach and West Palm Beach.

The Sunrise Theatre opened in 1923 as a vaudeville house and remains the cultural centerpiece of downtown; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1943 the U.S. Navy trained its first Underwater Demolition Teams - the direct ancestors of the Navy SEALs - on North Hutchinson Island, where the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum now stands.

The wartime Naval Amphibious Training Base at Fort Pierce brought roughly 40,000 troops through the small city during World War II.

Writer Zora Neale Hurston spent her final years in Fort Pierce after arriving in 1957, working as a substitute teacher at Lincoln Park Academy; her Fort Pierce home is on the National Register, and the city honors her with the Dust Tracks Heritage Trail.

Landscape painter A.E. Backus made Fort Pierce his home and studio, and the A.E. Backus Museum celebrates him and the Florida Highwaymen artists he mentored.

Fort Pierce is home to the main campus of Indian River State College, which won the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence in 2019.