Pleasant City, West Palm Beach
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- Synopsis
- Pleasant City, a neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida, is the oldest African-American community in Palm Beach County. The first black settlers came to a place called the Styx--later owned by white millionaires who then rented their backyards to black workers--to work on the railroad and Henry Flagler's hotel and mansion. Forced out when the land became valuable, the blacks purchased land and settled Pleasant City. Pleasant City was marketed as a "High Class Colored Subdivision" in 1913, and many of the pioneers still have descendants in the area today.
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439629772
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780738517582
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 01/28/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Everee Jimerson Clarke
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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