Pleasant City, West Palm Beach

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 04/01/2005
ISBN: 9780738517582
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.66w x 0.37d