History of West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

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 beautiful West Palm Beach.

Flagler had his city laid out in November 1893, naming the streets for native plants.

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 passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida.

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.

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, wrecking buildings and homes and wounding their occupants. The storm struck West Palm Beach Sunday afternoon and the Muskoffs reached Jacksonville Monday night after a drive over miles of debris-littered highways.
"The town," said Mr. Muskoff, a young Jacksonville attorney, "was one mass of debris. The streets were so littered as to make them almost impassible.

"We were driving up from Miami and reached West Palm Beach shortly after noon. A brisk wind was blowing. Suddenly a roof of a building went sailing through the sky. I looked around for the most secure hotel I could find and drove there. When we got out of the car we could not walk against the wind.

"As we entered the hotel there were many others already there. The crowd stood about, looking outdoors. By this time a drenching rain had set in. There could be heard crashes and...