Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach, Florida Town of Palm Beach Aerial Photograph Of Palm Beach Proper Aerial Photograph Of Palm Beach Proper Official seal of Palm Beach, Florida Location of Palm Beach, Florida Location of Palm Beach, Florida County Palm Beach Palm Beach, 1916 The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring metros/cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth.
In 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round populace of 10,468, with an estimated cyclic populace of 30,000.
2 The name Palm Beach Prior to Flagler, Palm Beach was sparsely populated, and was a part of Lake Worth.
Palm Beach was established as a resort by Henry Morrison Flagler, who made the Atlantic coast barrier island accessible via his Florida East Coast Railway.
West Palm Beach was assembled across Lake Worth as a service town and has turn into a primary city in its own right.
Flagler's home lots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age, and in 1902 Flagler himself assembled a Beaux-Arts mansion, Whitehall, designed by the New York based firm Carrere and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach winter "season" by constantly entertaining.
In the early 1900s the landowners agreed to evict all of the inhabitants of the Styx (who moved to West Palm Beach, Florida) and Edward R.
Bradley bought up much of this land. The homes were razed, as stated to the Palm Beach Daily News.
The name Palm Beach The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is not native to Florida (nor anywhere else in the United States).
Its existence in Palm Beach is due to the shipwreck of the Spanish ship Providencia in 1878, near Mar-a-Lago.
It was traveling from Havana to Cadiz, Spain with a cargo of coconuts. Since the shipwreck was near the shore, the coconuts were salvaged, and many were planted. A lush grove of palm trees soon interval on what was later titled Palm Beach. Palm Beach is the easternmost town in Florida, positioned on a 16-mile (26 km) long barrier island.
Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 10.4 square miles (27 square kilometres).
Palm Beach has a tropical rainforest climate.
Average high temperatures in Palm Beach are 86 to 90 F (30 to 32 C) with lows of 70 to 75 F (21 to 24 C).
Average high temperatures of 75 to 82 F (24 to 28 C) and lows of 57 to 66 F (14 to 19 C).
Although most winter days have highs in the 75 F range in Palm Beach, occasional cold fronts amid this reconstructioncan result in a several days of cooler weather with high temperatures in the upper 50s and 60s (10 to 20 C) and lows of 40s and 50s (5 to 15 C) while at other times high temperatures occasionally reach the middle 80s F.
Palm Beach reports more than 2900 hrs of sunlight annually.
Although rare, tropical cyclones can impact Palm Beach, with the last direct hit in 1928. Climate data for Palm Beach Palm Beach has a median homehold income of $124,562 and a median family income of $137,867.
In 2000, Palm Beach had the 40th highest percentage of Russian inhabitants in the U.S., with 10.30% of the populace (tied with Pomona, N.Y.
Palm Beach Palm Beach The town/city is served by Palm Beach International Airport and Amtrak, as well as Tri-Rail all positioned in West Palm Beach and connecting Palm Beach to Miami.
Public transit is available through Palm Tran, and joins with the rest of the county.
The northern portion of Palm Beach is served by the Route 41 bus which travels from the northernmost portion of Palm Beach at the inlet and then down to Royal Palm Way, athwart the Royal Park Bridge (State Road 704) into West Palm Beach and up to the government center, and then follows the same route in reverse. Private vehicles and taxis are the dominant means of transport in Palm Beach.
The Lake Trail, exclusively for pedestrian and bike traffic, extends from Royal Palm Way (State Road 704) in the south up to the north end of the island.
In the southern end of the island, south of Sloan's Curve, through South Palm Beach to East Ocean Avenue (linking to Lantana) is a two-mile (3200 m) long, mostly wide pedestrian path that is prominent with walkers, runners, and bikers alike.
Palm Beach Public Elementary is positioned on the island and has kindergarten through fifth grade.
Palm Beach Day Academy is a private school in the area.
It was formed in 2005 from a consolidation between Palm Beach Day School and the Academy of the Palm Beaches. Pan's Garden, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Billy Bishop - World War I flying ace, he died while spending the winter of 1956 in Palm Beach Conrad Black - a former Canadian media baron, author, and convicted fraudster lived on Palm Beach Island for over twenty years Horace Dodge - The Dodge automotive family and died December 1920 at his Palm Beach residence The Duke and Duchess of Windsor incessantly holidayed in Palm Beach after their marriage in 1937 Henry Morrison Flagler - founder of Palm Beach Ilyinsky was propel to the Palm Beach town council in 1981.
Brett King - American actor who later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas, died in Palm Beach in 1999 Addison Mizner - influential architect of Palm Beach landmarks and residences in the 1920s Ronald Perelman - Corporate Raider, Chairman of Revlon who sold his Palm Beach home in 2004 for $70 million Vera Wang - Fashion designer (has recently sold the $9m mansion she owned on the Palm Beach coast and moved to NYC) a b c d e Loney, Jim (19 December 2008).
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Harvey Oyer III, ""The Wreck of the Providencia in 1878 and the Naming of Palm Beach County," South Florida History, vol.
Town of Palm Beach, "History of Palm Beach", https://townofpalmbeach.com/Index.aspx?NID=343, retrieved January 16, 2017.
Palm Beach County Historical Society, "1860-1879," https://pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1860-1879, retrieved January 12, 2017.
Town of Palm Beach, "Story of the Town's Founding", https://townofpalmbeach.com/Index.aspx?NID=344, retrieved January 16, 2017.
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