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==History== Gulf Stream was [[Plat|founded]] around 1916, and throughout the early 1920s, the [[planned community]] centered around the Gulf Stream County Club.<ref name="history">{{cite web | url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/gulf-stream | title=Gulf Stream | publisher=Palm Beach County Historical Society | access-date=October 17, 2023 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405055929/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/gulf-stream | archivedate=April 5, 2023}}</ref><ref name=GSH>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.gulf-stream.org/about/|access-date=April 20, 2025|website=www.gulf-stream.org}}</ref> The name of the town comes from its location on the [[Gulf Stream]], a warm [[Atlantic Ocean]] current.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22049730/the_palm_beach_post/|title=What's in a name? Lots of history if it's a town|date=September 16, 1987|author=Eliot Kleinberg|newspaper=The Palm Beach Post|page=7D|access-date=March 9, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}}</ref> Bessemer Properties, a [[real estate]] [[business venture]] controlled by the family of [[Henry Phipps, Jr.]], was responsible for creating the community that was briefly named after him, ''Phipps Beach'', before it was ultimately renamed the '''Town of Gulf Stream''' when it was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1925.<ref name="history" /><ref name=GSH/><ref name=GSInc>{{Cite web|title=FLORIDA CITIES BY INCORPORATION YEAR WITH INCORPORATION & DISSOLUTION INFO|url=https://www.flcities.com/docs/default-source/research-institute-reports/2020citiesbyincorporationwithinfo.pdf?sfvrsn=5009d6d5_0|access-date=April 20, 2025|website=www.flcities.com}}</ref><ref name=GuStInc>{{Cite web|title=MUNICIPAL DIRECTORY: Town of Gulf Stream|url=https://www.floridaleagueofcities.com/research-resources/municipal-directory|access-date=April 20, 2025|website=www.floridaleagueofcities.com}}</ref>
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