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Palm Beach County celebrated its centennial in 2009. To commemorate 100 years since the county's establishment, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County and The Palm Beach Post collaborated on the publication of a 338-page book of photographs and accounts on historic events entitled Palm Beach County at 100: Our History, Our Home. [167]
The Palm Beach Post had the 5th largest circulation for a newspaper in Florida as of November 2017 and is served to subscribers throughout Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. [170] [171] Palm Beach is part of the West Palm Beach–Fort Pierce television market, ranked as the 38th largest in the United States by Nielsen Media Research. [172]
The history of West Palm Beach, Florida, began more than 5,000 years ago with the arrival of the first aboriginal natives. Native American tribes such as the Jaegas inhabited the area. Though control of Florida changed among Spain , England , the United States, and the Confederate States of America , the area remained largely undeveloped until ...
Mar-a-Lago (/ ˌ m ɑːr ə ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ / MAR ə LAH-goh, Spanish: [ˈmaɾ a ˈlaɣo]) is a resort and National Historic Landmark on a barrier island in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. [5] It spans 126 rooms and 62,500 sq ft (5,810 m 2 ) [ 1 ] built on 17 acres (7 hectares) of land. [ 2 ]
Location of Palm Beach County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Palm Beach County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
Unique sights, spectacular grandeur and fascinating history await you on the island in Palm Beach, if you know where to look. Discover the town's iconic landmarks and the history behind them.
Each of the 121 trees in the town's historic and specimen tree program is old, rare or both. Created in 1973 by the Garden Club of Palm Beach, the program helps to preserve the island’s beauty ...
Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...