In 1963, Robert E. Bateman wrote a letter to the Florida State Turnpike Authority, asking that his residential development of Coconut Creek be identified by a sign at the Turnpike’s Pompano Beach interchange and that the directional sign to Hammondville be removed.

A written response from the Turnpike Authority’s director of services, C. E. Taylor, noted “it is our current policy to display only the names of incorporated communities on our town name signs.”

Taylor did however agree with Bateman that “Hammondville is not an incorporated municipality and have requested that the name Hammondville be removed from our town name signs as quickly as possible.”

Coconut Creek would get its sign on the Turnpike following its incorporation in 1967.