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Pleasant City, West Palm Beach
Author | : Everee Jimerson Clarke |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439629773 |
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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.
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