Palm beach Gardens, Florida

Palm Beach Gardens When John D. MacArthur purchased the land that is now Palm Beach Gardens, he thought no one lived there.

“He bought it and assumed it was pristine, that nothing was there. John had a big surprise. It turned out there was a squatter on it, Charlie Cooper. He had a trailer and a chicken coop,” Don Kiselewski Sr., who served on the Palm Beach Gardens City Council for 12 years including stints as mayor and vice mayor, told the Palm Beach Post in 2019.

MacArthur told the squatter Cooper he would move him to Lake Park to a house where he would have running water, a toilet and septic tank.