Palm Beach, Florida Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === 1872β1900 === Settlers began arriving in modern-day Palm Beach by 1872.<ref name=VF500/> Hiram F. Hammon made the first [[Homesteading|homestead claim]] in 1873 along [[Lake Worth Lagoon|Lake Worth]]. At the time, the lake area had fewer than 12 people. By 1877, the Tustenegee Post Office was established in modern-day Palm Beach, becoming the lake area's first post office.<ref name=PBTL>{{cite web|url= http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1860-1879 |title=1860 - 1879|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408143217/http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1860-1879|archivedate=April 8, 2023}}</ref> Along the coast of Palm Beach, the ''Providencia'' wrecked in 1878 with a cargo of 20,000 coconuts, which were quickly planted.<ref name=VF500/> In 1880, [[Elisha Newton Dimick|Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick]] converted his private residence to a hotel known as the Cocoanut Grove House. At the time of its opening, the Cocoanut Grove House was the only hotel along Florida's east coast between [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]] and [[Key West]]. A fire destroyed the hotel in October 1893.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRV5P|title=Cocoanut Grove House|date=August 8, 2016|publisher=Waymarking.com|access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> The Star Route, also known as the [[Barefoot Mailman]] route, began serving the area in 1885.<ref name=PBTL2>{{cite web|url= http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-0|title=1880 - 1889|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409114228/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-0|archivedate=April 9, 2023}}</ref> Carriers delivered mail by foot or boat from Palm Beach and other nearby communities to as far south as [[Miami]], a round trip of {{convert|136|mi|km}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/mail-routes|title=Reaching Out: Mail Routes|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409114227/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/mail-routes|archivedate=April 9, 2023}}</ref> The first schoolhouse in southeast Florida (also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse) opened in Palm Beach in 1886.<ref name=PBTL2/> [[Henry Flagler]], a Standard Oil tycoon, made his first visit to Palm Beach in 1893, and described the area as a "veritable paradise".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-timeline|title=Henry M. Flagler in Florida Timeline|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408082611/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-timeline|archivedate=April 8, 2023}}</ref> That same year, Flagler hired George W. Potter to plot 48 blocks for [[West Palm Beach, Florida|West Palm Beach]], a city to house workers at his hotels, and construction began on the [[Royal Poinciana Hotel]].<ref name="grandhotels">{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-royal-poinciana-hotel|title=The Grand Hotels: The Royal Poinciana|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409015149/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-royal-poinciana-hotel|archivedate=April 9, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1890-1899|title=1890 - 1899|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408082534/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1890-1899|archivedate=April 8, 2023}}</ref> The Royal Poinciana Hotel opened for business on February 11, 1894.<ref name="grandhotels"/> Flagler, also the owner of the [[Florida East Coast Railway]], extended the railroad southward to West Palm Beach by the following month.<ref name="flagler era">{{cite web|url= http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-era |title=Flagler Era|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407002037/http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-era|archivedate=April 7, 2023}}</ref> In 1896, Flagler opened a second hotel originally known as Wayside Inn, before being renamed Palm Beach Inn, and later becoming [[The Breakers (hotel)|The Breakers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-the-breakers|title=The Grand Hotels: The Breakers|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=October 12, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409112715/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-the-breakers|archivedate=April 9, 2023}}</ref> Fires later burned down the hotel in 1903 and 1925, but it was rebuilt twice. The ''[[Palm Beach Daily News]]'' began publication in 1897 originally under the name ''Daily Lake Worth News''.<ref name="timeline2"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page