West Palm Beach, Florida

Boat dock on Lake Worth with buildings in background - West Palm Beach, 1900; source: State Archives of Florida, Florida MemoryAt some point following the Expedition, secretary Wallace R. Moses became an employee of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. By 1895, Moses had relocated his family to West Palm Beach. He was an agent for Florida East Coast Railway Lands and established Wallace R. Moses Real Estate and Insurance in 1896. He continued to work for Flagler's companies in the early 1900s. The region now known as West Palm Beach originally was called Lake Worth by the settlers who moved there in the 1870s and 1880s, calling both the settlement and the lake by the same name. By 1893, Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway had reached the area, and he had built two opulent hotels in Palm Beach. To support these operations he purchased much of the land around Lake Worth and created the town of West Palm Beach. The city was incorporated in 1894. The population was 244 according to the 1890 Census and by 1910 the population was 1,743.

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