Crime Scene & Biohazard Cleanup Near Jacaranda Plantation, FL

Plantation is named for the Everglades Plantation Company, which once tried - and failed - to grow rice on the flooded land where the city now stands.

Before drainage canals were dug in the early 1900s, the land that became Plantation lay under two to three feet of Everglades water for much of the year.

Developer Frederick C. Peters bought roughly 10,000 acres here in the 1930s for about $10 to $25 an acre and hired architect Russell Pancoast to draw up a master plan for a new city.

Plantation was incorporated in April 1953 with fewer than 500 residents, a first-year budget of just $1,288, and Ellsworth D. Gage as its first mayor.

The city's seal bears the Latin motto 'E Vasitate Haec Urbs', which translates to 'Out of the Wilderness, This City'.

A golf course first built in 1950 still anchors the city; Plantation bought it in 2001 and operates it today as the Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club.

After Peters died in 1964, Gulfstream built the Jacaranda community as Broward County's answer to Coral Gables, giving Plantation one of its signature neighborhoods.

Plantation is a master-planned city in central Broward County, directly west of Fort Lauderdale in the heart of the South Florida suburbs.

Plantation had 91,750 residents in the 2020 census and an estimated 99,183 by 2025, living in about 37,137 households averaging 2.58 people each.