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About Pembroke Pines, FL

Pembroke Pines was officially incorporated on January 16, 1960. The city's name, Pembroke Pines, is traced back to Sir Edward J. Reed, a Member of Britain's Parliament for the County of Pembroke from 1874 to 1880, who in 1882 formed the Florida Land and Mortgage Company to purchase from Hamilton Disston a total of 2 million acres of mostly swampland located throughout the southern half of Florida. A road put through one of the tracts came to be known as Pembroke Road. [ citation needed ] When incorporating the city, Walter Smith Kipnis, who would become the city's first mayor, suggested the name Pembroke Pines because of the pine trees growing near Pembroke Road.