Homes for Sale in Sewall’s Point
- December 19, 2018
- local, Martin County
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The Town of Sewall’s Point is located just east of Stuart, on a peninsula surrounded by magnificent waterways.
The St. Lucie River borders the western portion of this prominent town, while the stunning Intracoastal Waterway is found to the east—making this unique peninsula a boater and fisherman’s paradise. Sewall’s Point is ideal for those seeking luxury waterfront properties or an estate home in a quaint, private community.
History of Sewall’s Point
Based on “Sewalls Point: The History of A Peninsular Community”
by Sandra Henderson Thurlow published 1992.
Henry Sewall, one of the heirs to the Hanson Grant, arrived with his wife in 1889 and gave a permanent name to the peninsula. In the beginning Sewall’s Point meant exactly what it said; the point of the peninsula that belonged to Henry Sewall. He built his home on the riverbank and established the peninsula’s second post office in 1891. His dock jutted out into the Indian River at its confluence with the St. Lucie River, and, once it was in place, everyone traveling north or south stopped there. The accounts of the arrival of the early settlers of Stuart and Palm City tell of disembarking at the Sewall’s Point dock.
History and Formation of the Town
You may wonder how the Town of Sewall’s Point became a town. By 1940 in the United States, and more slowly in Florida, the Great Depression was waning and trailer parks started to spring up along Indian River Drive. Land owners who had owned their parcels for many years began to subdivide ten acre river to river tracts in the peninsula, known today, as Sewall’s Point. The Sewall’s Point Association was established in the early 1950s in an effort to control zoning in the peninsula. Dr. Elvin Killheffer, a member of the zoning committee, spearheaded a movement to “preserve and maintain the orderly development of a first-class residential community.”
Since 1970, through the leadership of multiple commissions, and the will of its citizens, Sewall’s Point has grown to become one of Martin County’s premier exclusive residential communities, with just over 825 residences, and an exclusive business district, a town park, and a town hall. It is well known that Sewall’s Point holds some of the most desirable waterfront and non-waterfront property in the county.
More information about Sewall’s Point can be found here.
Homes for Sale in Sewall’s Point can be found on the company website.
If you’d like to learn more about Sewall’s Point or would like to view a home in the area, please contact me at 772-215-5824.
Dave