Palm Beach Hotels
Hotels in the town of Palm Beach are often required for tourists who want to see the town. Some tourists may want to see the town to see the beaches, the culture, the entertainment, historic areas of the town. Some may want to see the tourist attractions of the town. Some visitors may want a hotel that offer good views of the beach. Some visitors may want a hotel that has good transport access.
Palm Beach is an upscale incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth.
Palm Beach was established as a resort by Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of Standard Oil, who made the Atlantic coast barrier island accessible via his Florida East Coast Railway. The nucleus of the community was established by Flagler's two luxury resort hotels, the Royal Poinciana Hotel and The Breakers Hotel. West Palm Beach was built across Lake Worth as a service town, and has become a major city in its own right.
Flagler's houselots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age, and in 1902 Flagler himself built a Beaux-Arts mansion, Whitehall, designed by the New York-based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach winter "season" by constant entertaining. The town was incorporated on April 17, 1911.
The Lake Worth Lagoon is a lagoon located in Palm Beach County, Florida. It is approximately 21 miles long and up to a mile wide. It runs parallel to the coast, and is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier beaches, including Palm Beach Island. The lagoon is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by two permanent, man-made inlets. The Lake Worth Inlet is 800 feet wide by 35 feet deep; the South Lake Worth Inlet (also known as the Boynton Inlet) is 130 feet wide by 6 to 12 feet deep. The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway runs the entire length of the lagoon. Eight causeways and bridges connect the mainland to the barrier beaches, including Palm Beach Island. In the mid-19th century the body of water that is now the Lake Worth Lagoon was a fresh water lake. The lake had been named Lake Worth in honor of William J. Worth, commander of the Eighth Infantry Regiment in the Second Seminole War. There were no rivers or streams flowing into the lake; all of the flow into the lake was by ground seepage from the Everglades to the west. The only outflow from the lake was through a swamp that became the Lake Worth Creek as it approached the Loxahatchee River and Jupiter Inlet. Extreme high tides and waves, high lake water levels and storms occasionally caused the formation of temporary inlets that quickly closed up again. When there was no inlet available, the settlers in the area had to haul their boats over the barrier beaches to move them between the ocean and the lake.
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Points of interest ; Breakers Hotel, Four Arts Gardens, Mar-A-Lago, Whitehall, the Flagler Museum, Worth Avenue
Palm
Beach County is located in the state of Florida. Palm Beach County was created
in 1909. It was named for its first settled community, Palm Beach, in turn named
for the palm trees and beaches in the area. The County was carved out of what
was then the northern portion of Dade County, and stretched northward to Brevard
county, comprising part of the areas now occupied by Okeechobee and Broward counties,
and all of Martin and Palm Beach counties, initially including all of Lake Okeechobee,
making it the largest county in Florida at the time. The southernmost part of
Palm Beach County was separated to create the northern portion of Broward County
in 1915, the northwestern portion of Palm Beach County became part of Okeechobee
County 1917 and Martin County was created from northernmost Palm Beach County
in 1925. About three quarters of Lake Okeechobee was removed from Palm Beach County
in 1963 and divided up among Glades, Hendry, Martin and Okeechobee counties.
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