Hotel Lake Worth
The Expedition record states that the party stopped at the "Lake Worth House" kept by Mr. H. P. Dye. This is a reference to the Hotel Lake Worth. Harlan Page Dye was one of the earliest settlers of the Lake Worth/Palm Beach area. In 1888, he built the Hotel Lake Worth with sixty-three rooms. Hotel Lake Worth was the largest hotel there until 1894 when the Hotel Royal Poinciana opened. The hotel burned down in the summer of 1897. Ingraham and party arrived on April 14, 1892, after the hotel had been closed for the season. On the morning of April 15 the party left via a Lake Worth and Jacksonville Transportation Company steamship, which picked them up at the hotel dock and took them north to Juno.
Credits:
Sources:
- Hotel Lake Worth advertisement, The Topical Sun, Nov. 18, 1891
- "Harlan Page Dye," Lake Worth Pioneers' Association, Inc.
- "Three Early Hotels on Lake Worth Part 2", The Tustenegee, Volume 1, Number 2 October 2010 (includes photos of Dye and his hotel)
- Charles W. Pierce, Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, 1970
- Pioneers in Paradise: West Palm Beach, the First 100 Years, Jan Tuckwood and Eliot Kleinberg, 1994
References in the Texts:
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For other topics referenced in the Expedition texts, please refer to the Index to Subjects and Names.
1892 Everglades Exploration Expedition : Three Digital Texts, 2015