A Testament to Time: Dubose Jewelry

Step into DuBose & Sons on Old Dixie and it’s immediately clear. With maps, photographs and posters on the walls, and a family who can walk you through Vero’s past intersection by intersection, the shop feels like a compact, working museum of Vero Beach history.

The line runs back to 1912, when J.C. DuBose opened his first jewelry store and later moved to a remote little place called Vero, long before “Beach” appeared on the sign. Over the decades, the family expanded to seven Treasure Coast locations, then pulled everything back into their existing space on Old Dixie, part workshop, part archive, and a clear record of how one family has grown in step with the town around it.

That same instinct to keep the record intact and in circulation sits at the heart of the Vero Heritage Center and its Citrus Museum, a civic anchor and architectural treasure. It's where Vero’s heritage is examined, argued over and kept in play, and where the past is held up against the future taking shape outside its doors downtown.

If you love Vero Beach history and want to meet the founding families and descendants whose DNA has shaped it over the years, April 11 is your chance.

On that evening, Todd DuBose and his daughters, Emily and Delaney, will be honored alongside the Beal, Greenlaw, Kennedy, Schlitt, MacWilliam, Idlette, Gunter, Hogan and other next generation pioneer families, with the event directly supporting Vero Heritage’s work to share the town’s history with residents and tourists who wander in asking how it all began.

Tickets are available here.