Hobe Sound, Florida the area before European settlement. The Spanish pronounced Jove/Jobe as , which later evolved into the current spelling "Hobe". The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine (three-masted ship) "Reformation", sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency. The small Quaker party, including its most notable passenger, Jonathan Dickinson, encountered and received aid from the Jove Indians. Hobe Sound received its name by 1699, according to the Florida WPA Guide. Parts of
Operation Jove backstop, thirty-five in support, and another thirty-five on the "Corridor of Guileje". On 18 November, after a difficult march through the woods and shortly after other troops from this group had installed the device, voices were heard and two armed men, white and black, appeared in the bite. The paratrooper aiming the machine gun opened fire, killing the black guerrilla and wounding the white, the latter managed to flee into the forest, trying to hide the blood trail, but after difficult chase, the paratroopers found the wounded man completely exhausted by the lost blood. He was given first aid and