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Lantana was named by its first postmaster, Morris Benson Lyman, for the wild lantana flowers that grew in abundance around his homestead - the settlement was first called Lyman's Point, then Lantana Point, before 'Point' was dropped.

The Lyman family, considered Lantana's founding family, arrived in 1887-1888 and started a general store, an Indian trading post and the post office; Lyman's 1889 house still stands today as the Old Key Lime House restaurant.

The Town of Lantana was incorporated on July 20, 1921, when just 22 residents voted in the first election, the town covered 1 square mile, and its first two mayors were women - Ellen Anderson and Mary Paddock.

Lantana was a stop on the route of the famous Barefoot Mailmen, who carried mail 66 miles between Palm Beach and Miami on foot along the beach and by boat in the late 1800s.

In the early 1900s, oysters gathered and marketed by the Lantana Fish Company were the town's leading industry.

Publisher Generoso Pope moved the National Enquirer's world headquarters from New York City to Lantana in 1971, and for years the tabloid erected what it billed as the world's largest Christmas tree at its Lantana offices each December, drawing thousands of visitors nightly.

The A.G. Holley State Hospital opened in Lantana in 1950 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and was the last of Florida's old state-run tuberculosis hospitals.

Lantana's population was 11,504 at the 2020 census, and the town has about 4,881 households, according to U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.

Lantana maintains an eight-acre municipal beach with 745 feet of ocean frontage on the Atlantic.

Before the first bridge to the beach was built in 1925, Lantana residents reached the ocean only by boat followed by a hike through a mangrove swamp.