Historian and Palm Beach County native Ginger Pedersen started a list of defunct place names on her Palm Beach Past.org blog, after seeing a name she didn’t recognize on an old map.

What's in a name? When it comes to towns and cities in Palm Beach County, the name could reflect its founder, or the place its original residents moved from — or the name could've been drawn out ...

Many Palm Beach County towns disappeared due to floods ... after seeing a name she didn’t recognize on an old map. Her research revealed that Ameron was an early 20th century farming community ...