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.
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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.
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Pleasant City, West Palm Beach

Pleasant City, West Palm Beach

by Everee Jimerson Clarke
Pleasant City, West Palm Beach

Pleasant City, West Palm Beach

by Everee Jimerson Clarke

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439629772
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 04/20/2005
Series: Black America Series
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 46 MB
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About the Author

Author Everee Jimerson Clarke is the founder and president of the Pleasant City Family Reunion Committee, Inc., and Heritage Gallery. Clarke shares her love of the Pleasant City community, its founders, and its descendants with this poignant collection of images and stories.
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