Ponte Vedra Beach is a wealthy

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and suburb of

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, United States. Located in the

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, southeast of downtown Jacksonville and north of

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, it is part of the

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area, and is situated on

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. The area is known for its

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s, including the

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, the Lodge and Club, and the Marriott at Sawgrass. It lies within St. Johns County, which is the wealthiest county in Florida. Ponte Vedra Beach is an upper-income

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resort area best known for its association with golf and is home to the

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and

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, hosted at

TPC Sawgrass The Tournament Players Club Sawgrass (TPC Sawgrass) is a golf course in the southeastern United States, located in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, southeast of Jacksonville. The course opened in the autumn of 1980 and was the first of several Tourn ...

History

The area remained sparsely populated through the late 19th century, even as other seaside communities began to develop to the north. Minerals were discovered in 1914, and a community known as Mineral City grew around the mining operations. These minerals, mostly titanium (

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, and

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were recovered from beach sands by the Buckman and Pritchard Mining Company. The National Lead Company bought Buckman and Pritchard in 1921 and discontinued mining as demand dropped after

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. In 1929 it began to develop the area to be similar to The Cloister in

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. Colonel Joseph C. Stehlin, who had been with the company in St. Louis, arrived on January 1, 1929, to manage development. The company wanted a more impressive name than Mineral City for its resort, so Colonel Stehlin and his wife, Elizabeth (''née'' Morton), went to the library in St. Augustine to research various possibilities for a new name. Since Florida had been under Spanish rule, they looked on an old map and found the name

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

on the Atlantic coast of Spain at "approximately" the same latitude as Mineral City. (Pontevedra, Spain, however, is over 800 miles farther north at about the same latitude as

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.) The Galician name of the town was derived from a Roman bridge ("pontis vetera" or "old bridge") that spanned the nearby

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centuries earlier. Colonel Stehlin submitted the name to the National Lead board for approval and Mineral City became Ponte Vedra.

Ponte Vedra Club

In the early 1920s, the National Lead Company built a nine-hole golf course designed by

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, one of the founders of the PGA, plus a 12-room clubhouse constructed of logs for the use of its employees. After the company left the area, that real estate became the foundation of the Ponte Vedra Club. Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co., a local developer, became the owner of the Ponte Vedra Corporation in July 1934.

World War II

During

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the debarked four saboteurs at Ponte Vedra as part of the failed

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. The four German spies, all of whom had previously lived in the United States, came ashore on the night of June 16, 1942 carrying explosives and American money. After landing they strolled up the beach to

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, where they caught a city bus to

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and departed by train for

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and Chicago. The invaders were captured before they could do any damage. They were tried by a military tribunal and executed.

Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass

In 1972,

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broke ground on the Sawgrass development. In the mid-1970s,

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, the Commissioner of the PGA golf tour, was looking for a permanent home for the Tournament Players Championship. Many places in northern Florida were being considered. In an attempt to bring positive attention to the area, developer Paul Fletcher offered a tract of land to Beman for $1. Beman could not refuse this ''one dollar deal'' for the future home of

and the headquarters of the

. The Sawgrass Stadium Course has been the permanent home of

since 1982.

Geographics

Ponte Vedra Beach is wholly located east of the

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, south of the Duval County line, and north of Vilano Beach. The South Ponte Vedra Beach community is commonly considered to be a part of Ponte Vedra Beach. The Ponte Vedra area includes Ponte Vedra, Ponte Vedra Beach, South Ponte Vedra Beach (an area between the Atlantic and

Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve In 1999, the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM Research Reserve) was designated in St. Johns County, Florida, St. Johns and Flagler County, Florida, Flagler counties, Florida as a part of the National Oceanic and ...

Sawgrass Sawgrass may refer to: *Saw grass, a common name of some species of plants in the genus ''Cladium'' *Sawgrass, Florida, a town in the United States *Sawgrass Country Club, a private golf and tennis club located in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida *Sawg ...

, and Palm Valley. In June 2006, the

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designated an area to the south and southwest of the 32082 area as ''Ponte Vedra'' (as distinct from ''Ponte Vedra Beach'') and assigned it the ZIP code 32081.

Demographics

Median household income in Ponte Vedra Beach is $150,646 and median family income is $109,181. The median age is 41.8. The Ponte Vedra area is known for being a very affluent area of North Florida, and boasts one of the best school districts in Florida. Ponte Vedra Beach was 50th on the list of 100 finalists for ''CNN and Money Magazine's 2005 List of the Best Places to Live.'' It was the first place in Florida to be named in that year and one of only four areas in the state to make the cut. As of April 1, 2024 the average house costs around $898,000.

Education

Public

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and secondary schools in Ponte Vedra Beach are administered by the St. Johns County School District.

Ponte Vedra High School Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS) is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Nocatee census-designated place, - Compare with school zone maps. northeast St. Johns County, Florida. The high school was constructed to ...

, which was constructed to relieve the overcrowding of Allen D. Nease High School, serves as the public high school in the Ponte Vedra Beach. Alice B. Landrum Middle School is the primary, public middle school in the area. The Ponte Vedra Palm Valley-Rawlings Elementary School serves as one of the primary, public elementary schools (K-5) in the area, as well as Ocean Palms Elementary School. Ponte Vedra offers private education (K-8) at the Palmer Catholic Academy. Also, the

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has one of their two lower school campuses in Ponte Vedra Beach, and offers education from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade before transferring students to the middle and high schools located in

. Additionally, the

St Johns County Public Library System St. Johns County Public Library System serves the surrounding areas of St. Johns County, Florida, including St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fruit Cove, and Hastings. The library system has six branches, two bookmobiles, and offers books-by-mail ...

has a Ponte Vedra Beach Branch library.

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, actress and model *

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, Afghan American businessman *

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, U.S. Congressman *

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, professional football player *

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, professional football player and coach *

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, professional tennis player *

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, professional hockey player and coach *

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, professional golfer and author *

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, professional golfer *

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Commissioner *

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professional football player *

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, model,

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wrestler, actress *

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, professional golfer *

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, professional golfer * Dan Galorath, software developer, businessman and author *

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, professional tennis player *

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, United Football League Commissioner *

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for

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, professional golfer * E. L. Konigsburg, author *

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, professional golfer and commentator *

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, professional golfer *

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, professional basketball player *

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, former CEO of T-Mobile *

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, professional golfer *

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four-star general * Ben Nowland, professional football player *

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, professional athlete and sports executive *

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, professional golfer *

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CEO *

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recipient

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Ponte Vedra Club

World War II

Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass

Geographics

Demographics

Education

Notable people

See also

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