The area where the town now sits was originally named for the Hobe Indian
tribe which lived at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River, and whose name is also
preserved in the name of nearby Hobe Sound. A mapmaker misunderstood the
Spanish spelling "Jobe" of the Indian name "Hobe" and
recorded it as "Jove". Subsequent mapmakers further misunderstood
this to be the Latin translation of the god Jupiter, and they anglicized the
name from Jove to "Jupiter". The Roman god Jupiter (or Zeus in the Greek
mythology) is the chief Roman god, and god of light, of the sky and weather,
and of the state and its welfare and its laws
