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  History of West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Journey back in time to West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Visit West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

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  West Palm Beach, Fla. Clematis Ave.
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• (West Palm Beach) When Henry Morrison Flagler first came here in 1893, he called the Lake Worth region "a veritable paradise" and decided upon a dual plan for the area.
  He would turn Palm Beach into a resort and he would build a commercial city across the lake for his workers. That "worker city" would become...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• November 1894 - West Palm Beach incorporated.
  On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Poinsettia Hotel
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• 1906
  West Palmbeach, a banking city and resort of Dade co., Fla., on the Florida East Coast R., adjacent to Palm-beach. Pop. in 1900, 564.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
  
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  The Holland House
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  Seaboard Station
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  Lake Park Hotel and Rialto Theatre
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  Fire-Proof El Verano Hotel (Always Summer), 1923
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  Saltair Hotel and Lake Worth
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•  1928 - Hurricane
  Tell of Seeing Storm.
  
  Mr. and Mrs. John W. Muskoff, Jr., are back in Jacksonville after watching the storm that bore down on West Palm Beach,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Flagler Memorial Bridge, showing West Palm Beach, Florida, in background
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  Hotel Monterey
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  Hotel Royal Worth
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  Hotel George Washington
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  "Shadow Lawn", 2605 South Olive, West Palm Beach, Florida
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  "Going Fishing" from Yacht Basin, West Palm Beach, Fla.
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  Feeding the Ducks and Gulls on Lake Worth, 1946
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  Clematis Street, 1947
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• The West Palm Beach metropolitan area was the fourth fastest growing area in the United States between 1950 and 1960.
  
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• (West Palm Beach) The first TV station WIRK (Channel 21) came to town in 1953.
  
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• 1955 - January 1 - WEAT TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins
  
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  Southlands Motor Lodge, 7001 S. Dixie (U.S. No. 1), West Palm Beach, Florida
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• On October 29, 1966, the main terminal at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach was dedicated.
  
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• West Palm Beach is the 7th wettest city in the U.S., averaging 62.33 inches of precipitation per year.
  
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