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<div style="font-size: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Linux Libertine', serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; color: #1a1a1a;">Welcome to West Palm Beach.Wiki</div>
<div style="font-size: 1.05em; color: #555; line-height: 1.65; margin-bottom: 14px;">The free encyclopedia for West Palm Beach and South Florida's Palm Beach County — exploring communities, history, and culture.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 1.05em; font-family: Georgia, 'Linux Libertine', serif; font-weight: bold; color: #1a1a1a; margin-bottom: 8px;">About West Palm Beach</div>
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West Palm Beach is the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, and the largest city on Florida's Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches region. Founded in 1894 by oil, railroad, and hotel magnate Henry Morrison Flagler as a service community for his Royal Poinciana Hotel on adjacent Palm Beach island, the city was incorporated that same year and has grown into a major urban center with a population exceeding 117,000 residents.<ref>[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/westpalmbeachcityflorida "West Palm Beach city, Florida — QuickFacts"], ''U.S. Census Bureau'', 2023.</ref> Situated along the western shore of the Lake Worth Lagoon, West Palm Beach is separated from the town of Palm Beach and the Atlantic Ocean by the Intracoastal Waterway.
The city has undergone substantial economic transformation in the early 2020s, with a notable influx of financial services firms, hedge funds, and private equity companies relocating operations from New York and other northeastern cities, drawn by Florida's favorable tax climate and growing professional infrastructure.<ref>[https://www.palmbeachpost.com "Finance industry migration to West Palm Beach"], ''Palm Beach Post''.</ref> Downtown's Clematis Street and CityPlace (now Rosemary Square) districts anchor a revitalized urban core that supports a thriving arts, dining, and entertainment scene. The city is served by Palm Beach International Airport, the Brightline intercity passenger rail station connecting West Palm Beach to Miami and Orlando, and an extensive highway network including Interstate 95.<ref>[https://www.gobrightline.com "West Palm Beach Station"], ''Brightline'', 2024.</ref>
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<div style="font-size: 1.05em; font-family: Georgia, 'Linux Libertine', serif; font-weight: bold; color: #1a1a1a; margin-bottom: 10px;">Explore West Palm Beach</div>
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<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:History of West Palm Beach|History]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach Island]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Arts and culture in West Palm Beach|Arts & Culture]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Sports in West Palm Beach|Sports]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Restaurants in West Palm Beach|Restaurants]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Parks in West Palm Beach|Parks & Nature]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Palm Beach County|Palm Beach County]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Business in West Palm Beach|Business]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Government of West Palm Beach|Government]]</span>
<span style="background: #f0f0f0; color: #333; padding: 5px 13px; border-radius: 3px; font-size: 0.9em; display: inline-block;">[[:Category:Notable people from West Palm Beach|Notable People]]</span>
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<strong>[[Clematis Street]]</strong> — Clematis Street is the principal commercial and entertainment corridor of downtown West Palm Beach, running east to west from the Intracoastal Waterway toward Dixie Highway. First developed in the late nineteenth century alongside the city's founding, the street declined through much of the mid-twentieth century before benefiting from sustained revitalization efforts beginning in the 1990s. Today it is home to a dense concentration of restaurants, bars, retail shops, and live music venues. The street serves as the site of recurring outdoor events, including the long-running weekly gathering known as Clematis by Night, which draws residents and visitors to its waterfront blocks. The eastern terminus at Centennial Fountain and the adjacent waterfront park provide direct views across the Intracoastal Waterway toward Palm Beach island.
[[Clematis Street|Read more →]]
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<div style="font-size: 1.05em; font-family: Georgia, 'Linux Libertine', serif; font-weight: bold; color: #1a1a1a; margin-bottom: 8px;">Did You Know?</div>
West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County have a history dense with notable firsts and surprising facts. West Palm Beach was founded in 1894 as a service and labor community for Henry Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel, which at the time of its construction was the largest wooden hotel in the world, built to accommodate the American elite who arrived on Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway.<ref>[https://www.flaglermuseum.us/history "History of Henry Flagler and the Florida East Coast"], ''Henry Morrison Flagler Museum'', 2024.</ref> The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1992 on Okeechobee Boulevard in downtown West Palm Beach, hosts more than 300 performances annually across its multiple venues and ranks among the largest performing arts facilities in Florida.<ref>[https://www.kravis.org/about "About the Kravis Center"], ''Kravis Center for the Performing Arts'', 2024.</ref>
Belle Glade, a farming city in the western reaches of Palm Beach County on the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, has produced more NFL players per capita than virtually any other municipality in the United States, a distinction that has drawn national sports media attention for decades and earned the city the informal nickname "Muck City" in reference to the rich agricultural soil of the Everglades Agricultural Area.<ref>[https://www.palmbeachpost.com "Belle Glade's NFL pipeline"], ''Palm Beach Post''.</ref> The IBM Personal Computer, which transformed global computing when it launched in 1981, was developed at IBM's facility in Boca Raton, located in southern Palm Beach County, by a team under the direction of Don Estridge — a project that helped establish South Florida as a significant node in the history of the technology industry.<ref>[https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html "Birth of the IBM PC"], ''IBM Corporation''.</ref>
The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane remains one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history. The storm made landfall near Palm Beach on September 16, 1928, and the subsequent collapse of the dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee killed an estimated 2,500 people — the majority of them Black agricultural laborers living in communities around the lake's southern shore. The disaster prompted the construction of the Herbert Hoover Dike, which today encircles Lake Okeechobee and is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.<ref>[https://www.weather.gov/mfl/1928hurricane "The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928"], ''National Weather Service Miami'', 2023.</ref>
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West Palm Beach.Wiki is a community-maintained free encyclopedia covering West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, and the surrounding South Florida region. Anyone with knowledge of the area is welcome to create an account and contribute. New editors are encouraged to review the [[West Palm Beach.Wiki:Style guide|style guide]] and [[West Palm Beach.Wiki:Policies|editorial policies]] before making substantive changes. Articles in need of expansion can be found at [[:Category:Stubs|the stubs category]], and topics missing entirely can be proposed at [[West Palm Beach.Wiki:Requested articles|the requested articles page]].
This project is independent and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia. Content is freely licensed and written by volunteer contributors with knowledge of the West Palm Beach area.
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