From 1900 until the late 1950s, Jupiter Indiantown Road connected the communities of Jupiter and Indiantown and gave residents access to resources. The area was governed by Dade County in 1899, when the new road was cut. In Indiantown about that time, brothers Joe and Dessie Bowers developed citrus groves and ran a trading post that exchanged goods for hides with the Seminoles. Transporting goods on the 16-mile road took two days by oxcart. The road was improved in 1912, using mules to haul shell rock from Jupiter. Around 1916, the St. Lucie Canal intersected the road near Indiantown, and a hand-winched ferry provided passage until a one-lane turning bridge was built in 1927. Homesteads, cattle ranches, and later the Davis and Jenkins sawmill were established along the road. Also known as the Jupiter Grade Road, the Jupiter Okeechobee Road, and the Central Dixie Highway, it became State Road 29 in 1936. By the late 1950s, nearby paved highways replaced the historic dirt road, and in 1993 it was declared a Scenic By-Way by Martin and Palm Beach Counties.