According to Joaquin Roy, a highly regarded professor from the University of Miami in his 1989 book "The Streets of Coral Gables"; Le Jeune Road was named after Charles Le Jeune (b. 1878, Belgium) who came to Florida around 1900 and acquired 140 acres of coral rock land on which he used dynamite to create tillable soil, and then cultivated orange, grapefruit and lime groves.