Pioneers in Paradise - West Palm Beach - The First 100 Years

Informationen zum Autor Jan Tuckwood is presentation editor for The Palm Beach Post. She grew up in Lake Worth and returned home in 1986 after several years as a writer and editor at The Denver Post. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. Eliot Kleinberg, a native Floridian, has spent four decades in both broadcast and print news, including 30 years at the Palm Beach Post. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Klappentext Little more than 100 years ago, West Palm Beach was a nameless stretch of scrub and swamp dotted by a few settlements. Then Henry Flagler arrived. In a matter of months, the Standard Oil tycoon turned Palm Beach into a world-renowned resort. And across Lake Worth from his fancy paradise, he fashioned a service city - West Palm Beach. This is the st

Product details

• Authors: Eliot Kleinberg, Kleinberg Eliot, Jan Tuckwood, Jan Kleinberg Tuckwood
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781493042227
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-4222-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Florida, Hurricane, Palm Beach, Beaches, Local History, Vanderbilt, sandy, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, US South, Flagler, West Plam Beach, mansion