Editing Palm Beach, Florida (section)

=== 1872–1900 ===
White settlers began arriving in modern-day Palm Beach by 1872.<ref name=VF500/> Hiram F. Hammon made the first [[Homesteading|homestead claim]] in 1873 along [[Lake Worth Lagoon|Lake Worth]]. At the time, the lake area had fewer than 12&nbsp;people. By 1877, the Tustenegee Post Office was established in modern-day Palm Beach, becoming the lake area's first post office.<ref name=PBTL>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1860-1879 |title=1860 - 1879 |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408143217/http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1860-1879 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 }}</ref> Along the coast of Palm Beach, the ''Providencia'' wrecked in 1878 with a cargo of 20,000&nbsp;coconuts, which were quickly planted.<ref name=VF500/> In 1880, [[Elisha Newton Dimick|Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick]] converted his private residence to a hotel known as the Cocoanut Grove House. At the time of its opening, the Cocoanut Grove House was the only hotel along Florida's east coast between [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]] and [[Key West]]. A fire destroyed the hotel in October 1893.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRV5P |title=Cocoanut Grove House |date=August 8, 2016 |publisher=Waymarking.com |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806045026/https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRV5P |url-status=live }}</ref> The Star Route, also known as the [[Barefoot Mailman]] route, began serving the area in 1885.<ref name=PBTL2>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-0 |title=1880 - 1889 |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409114228/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-0 |archive-date=April 9, 2023 }}</ref> Carriers delivered mail by foot or boat from Palm Beach and other nearby communities to as far south as Miami, a round trip of {{convert|136|mi|km}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/mail-routes |title=Reaching Out: Mail Routes |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409114227/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/mail-routes |archive-date=April 9, 2023 }}</ref> The first schoolhouse in southeast Florida (also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse) opened in Palm Beach in 1886.<ref name=PBTL2/>

[[Henry Flagler]], a Standard Oil tycoon, made his first visit to Palm Beach in 1893, and described the area as a "veritable paradise".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-timeline |title=Henry M. Flagler in Florida Timeline |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408082611/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-timeline |archive-date=April 8, 2023 }}</ref> That same year, Flagler hired George W. Potter to plot 48 blocks for [[West Palm Beach, Florida|West Palm Beach]], a city to house workers at his hotels, and construction began on the [[Royal Poinciana Hotel]].<ref name="grandhotels">{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-royal-poinciana-hotel |title=The Grand Hotels: The Royal Poinciana |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409015149/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-royal-poinciana-hotel |archive-date=April 9, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1890-1899 |title=1890 - 1899 |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408082534/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/timeline-1890-1899 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 }}</ref> The Royal Poinciana Hotel opened for business on February&nbsp;11, 1894.<ref name="grandhotels"/> Flagler, also the owner of the [[Florida East Coast Railway]], extended the railroad southward to West Palm Beach by the following month.<ref name="flagler era">{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-era |title=Flagler Era |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407002037/http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/flagler-era |archive-date=April 7, 2023 }}</ref> In 1896, Flagler opened a second hotel originally known as Wayside Inn, before being renamed Palm Beach Inn, and later becoming [[The Breakers (hotel)|The Breakers]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-the-breakers |title=The Grand Hotels: The Breakers |publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409112715/https://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/the-grand-hotels-the-breakers |archive-date=April 9, 2023 }}</ref> Fires later burned down the hotel in 1903 and 1925, but it was rebuilt each time. The ''[[Palm Beach Daily News]]'' began publication in 1897 originally under the name ''Daily Lake Worth News''.<ref name="timeline2"/>