For decades, people talking about what probably is West Palm Beach's oldest home repeated the story — that the original owner ...
In 1890, the land was sold to the Charles Bingham ... At the time, Juno was approximately where Shoppes of Oak Brook in Palm Beach Gardens is today, said Pedersen. Before roads, the 7.5-mile ...
But beyond the two resort hotels Standard Oil partner, railroad magnate and developer Henry Flagler had built in the 1890s just south of today’s Royal Poinciana Way, Palm Beach was still largely ...
A half-dozen Black hotel players are among 351 inductees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. They played in Palm Beach as part of the Florida Hotel League, also known as the Coconut League.
But the evidence all but dismisses it. The shantytown known as the Styx sprang up in Palm Beach in the 1890s for more than 2,000 Black workers who built Henry Flagler's nearby hotels. The story is ...
Dozens of tiny towns, settlements really, that once dotted Palm Beach County have disappeared through the years, buried under ...
More than a century ago, two all-Black hotel teams, including one for The Breakers, competed in Palm Beach and beyond.