Now known as the Palm Beach Inlet, the Lake Worth Inlet is north of Palm Beach. It is an artificial cut through a barrier island connecting Lake Worth Lagoon with the Atlantic Ocean. In the accounts of the Expedition the authors use the name "Lake Worth" as a reference to both to the body of water of that name and to the communities surrounding it. Lake Worth actually was a fresh water lake in the 1800s, but towards the end of the century small inlets were created connecting it with the ocean. In the late 1880s, settlers created an inlet just south of a rock formation called Black Rocks, and in 1894 Henry Flagler had this inlet widened. The Expedition party had difficulty entering the inlet aboard the schooner "Margaret" because of high winds.
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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