Lake Worth is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which takes its name from a water body along the eastern border known as Lake Worth Lagoon. The lake itself is named after General William J. Worth, who led the US forces during the last part of the Second Seminole War. In 2010, the population estimated by the US Census Bureau was 34,910. This is the main city in the Miami metropolitan area, which is home to about 6,012,331 people by 2015.
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The indigenous peoples known as Jaega are the earliest residents to be reported on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the Martin and Palm Beach Counties area. The remains of a shell mound can be found near the inlet Jupiter, inland on Boynton Beach and just south of Boynton Inlet, showing the pre-Columbus Jaega habitat.
The first settlers in the town were Samuel and Fannie James, an African American couple and reportedly as a former slave, known as the Black Diamonds, who settled on the shores of Lake Worth Lagoon near 5th Avenue South in 1885. (The stone monument located at the corner northwest of Lucerne Avenue and J Street inaccurately using date 1883, due to transcription errors). The couple made a claim on their land under the Homestead Act in 1885 and received a receipt for their claim on February 1, 1887. Their ownership, originally 187 acres (76 ha), increased over time and came to include and additional 160 acre (65Ã, ha) south of Lake Aveune between M and F Streets, 160 acres (65Ã, ha) in College Park where Fannie runs a pineapple farm, and 160 acres (65Ã, ha) in the south including the traditional Osborne Colored Addition. then sold to Palm Beach Farms Co. in 1910.
The starting name for the post office is Jewell (sometimes spelled Jewel). Fannie James is the first postmaster. The post office is located in a small dry goods shop operated by the couple to serve the lake traffic connecting a small pioneer located along the shores of Lake Worth Lagoon. The pioneer area reported that Jewell was included as a stop on a barefoot mailman route via the Heavenly Railway in July 1889.
After Henry Flagler expanded its railroad south from West Palm Beach to Miami in 1896, a land development scheme was created to build townsite between rail and lake. Buyers of farmland, in the west of the city, will also receive a small 25 foot inside Lake Worth City, closer to the shore. Developer, Bryant & amp; Greenwood, proposed to name the city of Lucerne, but the US Postal Service refused to accept the name because there was already a Lake Lucerne post office north of Miami in Dade County. Therefore, the ancestors of the city settled in the name of Lake Worth, for the lake where the newly built city. One of the main street named Lucerne Avenue instead.
In April 1911, "A mound of Indians surrounded by wild forests marks the place where the rising Worth Lake now grows beyond its most vivid imagination," according to a promotional article published in the Lake Worth Herald, Newborn Town Population stood at 38 on July 1912. During that busy year, libraries, schools, newspapers, Women's Club, Chamber of Commerce and the first church were founded. At the end of the year, the publication of "the city's first census shows 308 residents, 125 homes, 10 wagons, seven cars, 36 bicycles and 876 poultry."
The city grew so fast that new additions were installed in that first year. The area along the Intracoastal from 5th Avenue South to 15th Avenue South still bears the name of Supplement 1. "In the new addition, the lake front has been divided into many large covered with palms and tropical growth, where we hope to view charming villas and winter homes appear as a charm, It will be a fashionable part of the city, where the rich people of the earth can display their artistic flavor and make the ideal home.Many are selling so fast, but very little is left. "Included in the new addition are South Palm Park, boat dock and P Street (now South Palmway) with a median, bright green and a collection of 31 species of palm trees.
Next history
Lake Worth was incorporated as "The City of Lake Worth" in June 1913. Many of the first inhabitants were farmers from other parts of south-America and mid-west, looking to profit from the winter vegetable market that developed at the time. The city benefited from the rest of southern Florida during the booming 1920s Florida soil. A wooden car bridge over Lake Worth was completed in 1919. The casino casino and the town's first beach complex finished shortly after. The 1920s also saw the completion of the Gulf Stream Hotel, now in the National Register of Historic Places.
The city was badly damaged in 1928 storm, dropped the bell tower in elementary school (today's Annex City Hall) and destroyed the beach casino and the car bridge over Lake Worth. This led to a severe economic downturn in society, during the Great Depression. Everything was so horrific in the city in the 1930s that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidential Progression Works built a striking and stylish "City Gymnasium" on the corner of Lake Avenue and Dixie Highway. The building today serves as City Hall.
Construction resumed after World War II with many simple retirees, mainly from Quebec, Finland, and finally Germany, moved into the city and built 1,000 square feet (93 m 2 cottages). These new immigrants brought their diligent nature with them as well as their original customs, restaurants, shops, and churches, and for decades the city grew. To this day, one can find many beer spaces, chocolatier, Bavarian specialties, and Lutheran churches, which stand out in the semitropic urban areas of South Florida.
The explosion of South Florida construction brought a new wave of immigrants in the last few decades. Central America has added a Hispanic aspect to Lake Worth culture. Included in the 1980s immigration was many Guatemalan-Mayas who regarded themselves as indigenous peoples, rather than Hispanics and could not speak Spanish. They mostly speak in M'am, Q'anjob'al, or one of 22 other Indian languages. Adding to the racial mixture and the language of the city is a large Haitian citizen, speaking in Creole and French Creole.
During a brief period of neglect and retrogression in the 1980s and 1990s, Lake Worth, in the words of past city commissioner Dennis Dorsey, "has been known as the capital of the country's skin film." The place now is Lake Worth Playhouse is Playtoy, and is very popular in Palm Beach County as a theater featuring films of diverse; Deep Throat is shown there, motivating police attacks.
The downtown area has seen a major revival in interest and now sports an array of art galleries, sidewalk cafes and nightclubs. Once the value of the property is almost dead it has soared. The city's main street, Lake Avenue, contains some of Columbus's oldest commercial structures, including the Art Deco Lake Worth Playhouse.
The city was severely hit by Hurricanes Frances, Jeanne and Wilma in 2004 and 2005. The fishing pier is quite damaged but repaired (with FEMA assistance) and reopened in May 2009. The pier is currently open to the public with a $ 1 entrance fee per adult traveler , and $ 3 per adult fisherman. The city's public swimming pool has been refurbished, and in addition to serving to instruct residents of Palm Beach County in swimming and water safety, organizing water sports competitions. The dock is home to tidal gauges with sporadic history, indicating the rate of above average sea level rise above.
In 2015, the city is accused of seeking business permits from nearby churches.
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Geography
Lake Worth is located on 26 Â ° 37? 11? N 80 Â ° 3? 31? W , bordering West Palm Beach to the north, and Lantana to the south. 60 miles (97Ã, km) north of Downtown Miami. According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​6.46 square miles (17 km 2 ), of which 5.64 square miles (15 km 2 ) is ground and 0.86 square miles (2 km 2 ) (12.69%) is water.
Some of the geographical features in Palm Beach County are somewhat confusing sharing the name "Lake Worth." The city of Lake Worth is named after a lagoon that is formally known as Lake Worth Lagoon. The lagoon is open to the Atlantic Ocean at the Port of Palm Beach via Lake Worth Inlet. The next closest inlet is farther south in Boynton Beach. The harbor and the two inlets are all away from the actual Lake Worth town. The lake is a long channel that stretches across most of Palm Beach County north; indeed, the Intracoastal waterway crosses the length of the lagoon. Man-made holes into the sea have replaced natural freshwater with salt water, so the actual lagoon is now a tidal body, not an actual lagoon.
The US Department of Agriculture has mapped most of Lake Worth in the Flatwoods Florida resource area of ​​South Florida.
The deep and poorly acidized sandy soil is typical for the area; they have gray humus, a white under ground layer, and a dark hardpan. Many of Worth Lake are built on dry, white sand or gray that is too dry and infertile to support strong plant growth. The western suburb of Lake Worth is in the Lowlands of South Florida. Topsoil is sandy, but the soil layer has a much higher clay content and its soil is relatively fertile. As in flatwoods, these soils are not well drained for many purposes unless the drainage system is installed.
Lake Worth aligns itself as a "Tropical Starting Place." Many tropical plants grow in the city; among the more prominent examples are mahogany, royal poinciana and many species of palm, including oil palm. African tulip trees, avocados and many species of eucalyptus can also be found, although they are on the list of city trees to avoid. The original lake-tempered zones of Lake Worth or Palm Beach County include the American elm, the living oak, the red maple, the red mulberry, and the slash pine. Species that grow in the southern region of origin include the American sweetgum, the Shumard oak, and the tulip tree.
Although the city of Lake Worth is geographically small, as is common in Palm Beach County, an urban area unrelated to the Lake Worth postal address located west of the city, and includes the Lake Worth Corridor census. It also includes the western environment and communities such as The Fountains, Lago Lucerne, Lake Osborne Estates, Melaleuca Lane Corridor, and Palm Beach National. The total population of both Lake Worth is combined and not estimated to be estimated by the 2006 Census to be 190,377.
Demographics
At the 2010 census, there were 39,910 people and 11,732 households (2009-2013) in the city. City's racial makeup is 36.9% White, 19.9% ​​African American, 0.06% Native Americans and 1.4% Asian. The Hispanic or Latino of any race is 40.16% of the population. Two or more races are 1.35% of the population.
The average income for households in the city is $ 35,428 (2009-2013) and 32.3% of the population is below the poverty level.
In 2000, the first three most spoken languages ​​in Lake Worth were English at 56.61%, Spanish at 26.57%, and French Creole spoken by 9.17% of the population.
Lake Worth has a large Finnish expatriate population, and Finland is spoken by 2.57% of the city's population as their native language. Other languages ​​spoken by city dwellers including France at 1.96%, the Mayan language spoken by 1.11% (mainly spoken by Guatemalan Mayan descent), and German as the mother tongue spoken by 0.52% of the population.
In 2000, Lake Worth had the highest percentage of Guatemalan population of the twentieth in the US, with 4.87% of the population. It has the highest percentage of twenty-first Haitian citizens in the US, at 8.10% of the city's population, and the highest percentage of Cuban population in the United States, which is 3.47% of the population. It also has at most twenty-three Honduras in the US, at 1.59% of all residents. According to the 2000 Census, people of Finnish descent are 3.4% of the population.
With 1,026 people claiming Finn's offspring in 2000, Lake Worth has the second largest diaspora in Finland as a percentage of the world's total population. In addition, Lake Worth has a large population of new immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. The downtown area has been a vibrant center for art and entertainment in recent years. Some of the most interesting architecture in South Florida can be found in College Park, a prosperous neighborhood in the northeast corner of the city. The festival is an annual fundraiser that supports a range of social services for low to mid-income individuals and families.
City Center
The downtown area of ​​Lake Worth has a different character and is a popular destination for tourists and residents of South Florida. It is distinguished by the two main streets, Lake Avenue and Lucerne Avenue, and by the fact that most of the city center buildings are historic and almost everything is one or two levels. Downtown Lake Worth is home to the Art Deco Lake Worth Playhouse and Lake Worth Historical Museum. Annual festivals such as the Street Painting Festival and Finnish Week (Celebration of Lake Worth Finland's population) attract thousands of people. When combined with the neighboring community of Lantana Finland, it became the largest Finnish community in the United States. The largest Oktoberfest in South Florida is held every October outside the city on Lantana Road. The city holds a semi-weekly celebration called "Evenings on the Avenue" which takes place at the Cultural Plaza, next to City Hall Annex.
Much of the 1981 film, Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, was filmed in downtown Lake Worth.
Crime
The city is part of a worsening opioid epidemic in the United States. From 2015 to 2016, the number of deaths from drug overdose increased 56%. By 2016, the estimated rate of deaths from overdoses is 20 out of every 10,000 people, much higher than in neighboring cities.
The gay community
The annual Gay Pride Parade for Palm Beach County is held in Lake Worth. The only LGBT center in the region, Kompas, is located in Lake Worth.
Religion
The city has a vibrant religious community, along with the distinction of having the largest freestanding cross in Florida within the city. Completed in December 2009 at the Lutheran Epiphany Church, the cross received international attention after it was completed and more than 100 feet tall, 30 feet across, and over nine feet in circumference at its base.
Education
Public schools in Lake Worth are part of the School District of Palm Beach County. There are four public primary schools in Lake Worth: South Elementary School, North Elementary High School, Highland Elementary and Barton Elementary.
Lake Worth Community High School, founded in 1922, serves the city, along with Lake Worth Middle School.
The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart runs a separate private school (pre-K to 8).
There is also a charter school, the Academy for Positive Learning.
Palm Beach State College's main campus is located on unrelated Lake Worth. This is the oldest community college in Florida, founded in 1933 as Palm Beach Junior College. It was at one time located at the Palm Beach High School campus, today the Dreyfoos School of Arts in downtown West Palm Beach. The school moved to its present location in 1956. The name was changed to Palm Beach Community College in 1988. In 2010, the school was changed to Palm Beach State College to reflect that the school offers a four-year degree.
Public transport
Lake Worth is served by Tri-Rail station of the same name. It is also served by the PalmTran bus.
Recreation
Lake Worth has the gift of a public park and open space. The Lake Worth Beach is one of the only remaining open tracts, public spaces in the oceans of Southeast Florida. In 2013, the casino building on the beach reopened with great fanfare. The neoclassical building approached the original 1920s building that stood facing the ocean until it was replaced by a more modern box building after the 1947 storm.
The William O. Lockhart Municipal Pier, jutting into the Atlantic, is a recognizable symbol of a city; largely destroyed by Hurricane Frances in 2004, but has since been rebuilt and raised 5 feet (1.5 m). The dock creates a sand dune that captures the ocean waves, making Lake Worth one of the most consistent surf spots in South Florida.
Bryant Park, located in downtown Lake Worth, has 1920s bands used for festivals and other events. The nearby city golf course offers cheap golf with views of Lake Worth and Palm Beach outside. On the west side of town, the state-owned John Park Memorial Park follows a winding beach from Lake Osborne and offers several miles of bikes and pedestrian paths and hundreds of acres for picnics, volleyball and overnight camping.
On February 29, 2012, the Natural Area of ​​the Snook Islands opened just to the north of Bryant Park. Facilities include kayak launches, eight mooring slips, fishing docks and nature walks around the mangrove forest in the south of the Snook Islands. Dolphins, manatees and various tropical birds are generally seen including herons, ibises, herons, oystercatchers, pelicans, cormorants and other waterfowl.
Famous people
- Violet Englefield, actress and singer
- Kevin Fagan, a former defender for the San Francisco 49ers
- Mark Foley, former US congressman and former city elected official
- Deidre Hall, actress and soap star
- Andy Hansen, Baseball Major League pitcher with New York Giants (1944-50) and Philadelphia Phillies (1951-53)
- Nicki Hunter, porn movie director, producer and former porn actress
- Scott "Raven" Retribution, pro wrestler
- Joe Looney, the offensive midfielder for the Dallas Cowboys (2012-present)
- Julie Mayberry, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015; journalist; former resident of Lake Worth
- Robin Morgan, radical feminist
- James Patterson, author
- Potion Scores, Baseball Baseball Players with Indian Cleveland (1955-59) and Chicago White Sox (1960-62)
- Mayo Smith, Premiership baseball player, manager, and scouts
- Otis Thorpe, professional basketball player (1984-2001)
- Trea Turner, baseball player
- Vanilla Ice, born as Robert Van Winkle; have been living in Lake Worth since 2010; rappers and house fins
- Charles Whitman, mass murderer
Twin Cities
- Lappeenranta ( Ã, Finnish)
- Saint-Marc ( Ã, Haiti)
- Southend-on-Sea ( Ã, English)
- Sopot ( Ã, Polish)
See also
- Lake Worth Corridor, an unrelated area outside the Lake Worth city limits
References
External links
- Official Lake city website
- Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce
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