The Strange Cold War History of “Apix Florida”
In the late 1950’s the U.S. government helped create a fictitious town, Apix which was an acronym for “Air Products Incorporated, Experimental.” The site picked for the fictitious town was in the middle of what was then a large remote swampy area located in Palm Beach County where alligators were a common site. Ostensibly, the cover created for the facility was that it was a fertilizer plant. The State of Florida, through the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, helped Pratt & Whitney obtain the 9,000 acres for the facility to hide from land speculators the true purpose. In an effort to further hide the purpose of the facility, land near the site was platted for houses, and given a fake population.