Lake Worth, Florida Location of Lake Worth, in Palm Beach County, Florida Location of Lake Worth, in Palm Beach County, Florida Port of Palm Beach Lake Worth inlet to harbor from Atlantic Ocean.
Lake Worth is a town/city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which takes its name from the body of water along its easterly border, originally called "Lake Worth", and now generally known as the Lake Worth Lagoon.
The city's first pioneer were Samuel and Fannie James, an African American couple and reported to be ex-slaves, known as the Black Diamonds, who settled on the shores of the Lake Worth Lagoon near the current 5th Avenue South in 1885.
Their holdings, originally 187 acres (76 ha), increased over time and came to include and additional 160 acres (65 ha) south of Lake Aveune between M and F Streets, 160 acres (65 ha) in College Park where Fannie ran a pineapple farm, and 160 acres (65 ha) to the south including the traditional Osborne Colored Addition. were later sold to the Palm Beach Farms Co.
The postal service was positioned in a small dry goods shop which the couple directed to serve the lake traffic that connected the small pioneer homesteads positioned along the banks of the Lake Worth Lagoon.
After Henry Flagler extended his rail line south from West Palm Beach to Miami in 1896, a territory evolution scheme was created to plant a townsite between the barns and the lake.
Purchasers of agricultural lots, west of town, would also receive a small 25 foot lot inside the City of Lake Worth, closer to the beach.
Therefore, the town/city fathers settled on the name Lake Worth, for the lake on which the fledgling town was sited.
In April 1911, "A solitary Indian mound surrounded by wild woods marked the spot where expand Lake Worth is now burgeoning beyond the most vivid imagination", as stated to a promotional article presented in the Lake Worth Herald, The populace of the nascent town/city stood at 38 in July 1912. During that busy year, the library, schoolhouse, newspaper, Women's Club, Chamber of Commerce and first church were established. By year end, printed announcement of the "city's first census showed 308 residents, 125 homes, 10 wagons, seven automobiles, 36 bicycles and 876 fowls.". Lake Worth was incorporated as the "Town of Lake Worth" in June 1913.
The town/city was severely damaged in the 1928 hurricane, toppling the bell fortress on the elementary school (today the City Hall Annex) and destroying the beachfront casino and automobile bridge over Lake Worth.
Lake Worth City Hall Central Americans have added a Hispanic aspect to Lake Worth's culture.
The city's chief street, Lake Avenue, contains some of the earliest commercial structures in South Florida, including the Lake Worth Playhouse.
Lake Worth is positioned at 26 37 11 N 80 3 31 W, bordering West Palm Beach to the north, and Lantana to the south.
Lake Worth Lagoon Several geographical features in Palm Beach County somewhat confusingly share the name "Lake Worth." The town/city of Lake Worth is titled after a lagoon which is officially known as the Lake Worth Lagoon.
This lagoon opens to the Atlantic Ocean at the Port of Palm Beach via the Lake Worth Inlet.
The port and two inlets are all distant from the actual town/city of Lake Worth.
The lake is a long channel that spans much of northern Palm Beach County; indeed, the Intracoastal Waterway traverses the length of the lagoon.
Department of Agriculture has mapped most of Lake Worth in the Southern Florida Flatwoods territory resource area. The outskirts of Lake Worth are in the Southern Florida Lowlands area.
Temperate-zone trees native to Lake Worth or Palm Beach County include American elm, live oak, red maple, red mulberry, and slash pine.
Although the incorporated town/city of Lake Worth is small geographically, as is common in Palm Beach County, a large unincorporated urbanized region with a Lake Worth postal address lies to the west of the city, and includes the census-designated place of Lake Worth Corridor.
It also includes neighborhoods and communities such as The Fountains, Lago Lucerne, Lake Osborne Estates, Melaleuca Lane Corridor, and Palm Beach National.
The total populace of both incorporated and unincorporated Lake Worth is estimated by the 2006 Enumeration to be 190,377.{fact} As of 2000, the three most spoken first languages in Lake Worth were English at 56.61%, Spanish at 26.57%, and French Creole which was spoken by 9.17% of the population. Lake Worth has a large Finnish expatriate population, and Finnish is spoken by 2.57% of the city's inhabitants as their native language.
As of 2000, Lake Worth had the twentieth highest percentage of Guatemalan inhabitants in the US, with 4.87% of the populace. It had the twenty-first highest percentage of Haitian inhabitants in the US, at 8.10% of the city's population, and the eighty-third highest percentage of Cuban inhabitants in the US, at 3.47% of its population. It also had the twenty-third most Hondurans in the US, at 1.59% of all residents. According to Enumeration 2000, citizens of Finnish lineage were 3.4% of the population.
Lake Worth's downtown region has distinct character and is a regular destination for both tourists and inhabitants of South Florida.
Downtown Lake Worth is home to the Lake Worth Playhouse and the Lake Worth Historical Museum.
Yearly celebrations such as the Street Painting Festival and Finlandia Week (a celebration of Lake Worth's Finnish population) attract thousands of citizens .
With 1,026 citizens claiming Finn descent in 2000, Lake Worth has the second biggest Finnish diaspora as a percentage of total populace in the world.
In addition, Lake Worth has a large populace of new immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean.
A substantial portion of the 1981 movie, Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, was filmed in downtown Lake Worth.
There are four enhance elementary schools in Lake Worth: South Grade Elementary, North Grade Elementary, Highland Elementary and Barton Elementary.
Lake Worth Community High School, established in 1922, serves the city, along with Lake Worth Middle School.
The chief campus of Palm Beach State College is positioned in unincorporated Lake Worth.
It was at one time positioned on the ground of Palm Beach High School, at the present day Dreyfoos School of the Arts in downtown West Palm Beach.
Lake Worth is served by a Tri-Rail station of the same name.
Lake Worth has a bounty of enhance parks and open space.
The Lake Worth Beach is one of the last remaining large tracts of open, enhance space on the ocean in Southeast Florida.
The pier creates sandbars which catch ocean swells, making Lake Worth one of the most consistent surfing spots in South Florida.
Bryant Park, positioned in downtown Lake Worth, has a 1920s-era bandshell which is used for celebrations and other affairs.
The close-by municipal golf course offers low-cost golfing with views of Lake Worth and Palm Beach beyond.
Julie Mayberry, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015; journalist; former Lake Worth resident Lake Worth Corridor: an unincorporated region outside the town/city limits of Lake Worth.
"Lake Worth, United States Page".
Osborne Neighborhood Master Plan, Rachel Waterman, Lake Worth Community Development Corporation, 2003, section 3, p.
Lake Worth: Jewel of the Gold Coast, Jonathan W.
Koontz, The Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce, 1997, p.
Pioneers of Jewell, Ted Brownstein, Lake Worth Herald Press, 2013.
Lake Worth: Jewel of the Gold Coast, Jonathan W.
Lake Worth Pioneer Association, https://lwpa.org/barefoot_mail_route.html Lake Worth: Jewel of the Gold Coast, Jonathan W.
Koontz, The Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce, 1997, p.
Lake Worth Herald, February 28, 1963, p.12, reprint of Bryant & Greenwood promotional article entitled, The Eyes of the World are Turned Toward Lake Worth,1912 a b Palm Beach Neighborhood Times, March 28, 1974, p.1, Early Resident Recounts Lake Worth History "Mean Sea Level Trend 8722670 Lake Worth Pier".
"Demographics of Lake Worth, Fla.".
"MLA Data Center Results for Lake Worth, Florida".
"Fact Sheet, Lake Worth city, Florida".
Herb Score, Big League Star who Pitched at Lake Worth, Dies at 75.
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