The Linton settlers established a post office and a store, and began to achieve success with truck farming of winter vegetables for the northern market. In 1896 Henry Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railroad south from West Palm Beach to Miami, with a station at Linton. Congressman for Saginaw, Michigan, bought a tract of land west of the Orange Grove House of Refuge, and began selling plots in what he hoped would become a farming community. By 1894 the black community was large enough to establish the first school in the area. The first non-indigenous group to build a settlement was a party of African Americans from the panhandle of Florida, who purchased land a little inland from the Orange Grove House of Refuge and began farming around 1884. The Arcade Tap Room was a gathering place for Delray's Artists and Writers Colony from the mid-1920s to the 1950s. The house derived its name from the grove of mature sour orange and other tropical fruit trees found at the site chosen for the house of refuge, but no record or evidence of who planted the trees was discovered. In 1876, the United States Life Saving Service built the Orange Grove House of Refuge to rescue and shelter ship-wrecked sailors. military map shows a Seminole camp located in the area now known as Lake Ida. Few other recorded details of these local indigenous settlements have survived.

Tequesta Indians likely passed through or inhabited the area at various times. The earliest known human inhabitants of what is now Delray Beach were the Jaega people. Located 52 miles (83 kilometers) north of Miami, Delray Beach is in the Miami metropolitan area. The population of Delray Beach as of Apwas 66,846 according to the 2020 United States Census. Delray Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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