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The Everglades Club is a social club in Palm Beach, Florida. When its construction began in July 1918, it was to be called the Touchstone Convalescent Club, and it was intended to be a hospital for the wounded of World War I. [1] But the war ended a few months later, and it changed into a private club. The Club has no sign, website, or Wi-Fi.
The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach is the oldest public library in Palm Beach County, Florida. The Library first began as a Free Reading Room for the City of West Palm Beach. The Free Reading Room was located in the city’s first church, the Union Congregational Church on the corner of Datura and Olive Streets.
The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 534 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida.During the 1895–96 winter season, business tycoon Henry Flagler opened the first Breakers resort, then the only oceanfront lodging south of Daytona Beach, to accommodate additional tourists due to the popularity of his Royal Poinciana Hotel.
In December 2020, neighbors of Mar-a-Lago delivered a demand letter to the town of Palm Beach, stating that the town should notify Trump that he cannot use the estate as his residence. [100] [103] In 2021, Palm Beach's attorney concluded that Palm Beach's zoning code allowed employees to reside at private clubs. He also stated that paperwork ...
Palm Beach State College's main campus is located in Palm Beach County, Florida. In addition to the Lake Worth campus, the largest (114 acre/51 building complex) and longest established campus (1956), the college also serves students at full-service locations in Belle Glade (1978), Palm Beach Gardens (1982), Boca Raton (1983) and Loxahatchee Groves (2017).
The library first began inside the women's locker room of the village's old Country Club in 1963, before it was relocated to the club's dining room. [2] The North Palm Beach Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) helped establish the village's public library, including Patricia Atwater, past president of the North Palm Beach Library Society and mother of former Florida ...
An 83-year-old man in Palm Beach suffered a fatal heart attack around the time he was struck by a sliding glass door. [74] A total of 51 homes in the town experienced damage. [92] Overall, damage in Palm Beach was approximately $9.4 million. [14]: 16A A wind gust of 105 mph (169 km/h) was observed in Greenacres. [122]
In 1900, land developer George Currie plotted a strip of land in the north end of West Palm Beach to provide homes for African Americans forced to leave their living quarters in the "Styx" on South County Road on Palm Beach Island. [1] He called the area Pleasant City, gave the streets pleasant-sounding names, and sold the 100 x 50 lots for ...