Pleasant City, West Palm Beach
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Everee Jimerson Clarke | ISBN: | 9781439629772 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. | Publication: | April 20, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Everee Jimerson Clarke |
| ISBN: | 9781439629772 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Publication: | April 20, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Publishing |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
