Historic Palm Beach

30/03/2024

Early on, Palm Beach was eager to welcome movie makers. But reaction set in during the 1980s, and since then, protecting residents has been the goal.

29/03/2024

Explore Palm Beach County's rich history with these impactful women, who ruled with professionalism and power.

Explore Palm Beach County's rich history with these impactful women, who ruled the city with professionalism and power.

28/03/2024

Images from the past provide a look at some of the fashion and settings that inspired the Apple TV+ series that stars Kristen Wiig and Carol Burnett.

25/03/2024

Amid the Watergate scandal, former President Nixon checked out what was to become Donald Trump's Southern White House.

30/01/2024

Explore Palm Beach County's January history from the Providencia wreck in 1879 to the first snowfall in 1977.

27/11/2023

Palm Beach State College has come a long way since opening as Palm Beach Junior College 90 years ago. Here's a look back at PBSC through the decades.

27/11/2023

The weekend before he was assassinated in November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was where he always loved to be: In Palm Beach.

25/10/2023

Palm Beach County's first school, the "Little Red Schoolhouse," opened in 1886 and was moved to Phipps Ocean Park in 1960. Where were others?

14/09/2023

“Clematis Street is the heart and soul of the city,” said an architect who leads historic walking tours of downtown West Palm Beach.

14/09/2023

The pool has been closed since at least 2017 but city commissioners are reviewing a proposal for a new pool. We look back at the pool through the years.

11/09/2023

The man for whom a state park was named was shipwrecked off Hobe Sound in 1696 during a journey from Jamaica to Philadelphia.

23/08/2023

📸 The Boynton Beach Mall is up for sale as a teardown, marking the end of the nearly 40-year-old shopping center. We look back at the mall through the years.

The Boynton Beach Mall is up for sale as a teardown, marking the end of the nearly 40-year-old shopping center. We look back at the mall through the years.

04/10/2022

Mizner's personal scrapbooks contain his thoughts, travels and inspirations, library officials said, while his private library consists of more than 200 volumes of books featuring topics such as European architecture and decoration.

The Rare Book and Special Collections room at Palm Beach's King Library features the personal scrapbooks of renowned architect Addison Mizner.

09/09/2022

Queen Elizabeth II died at 96 at Balmoral Castle. We look back when Prince Charles, Princess Diana and the royal family visited Palm Beach County

07/08/2022

About a mile south of Henry Flagler’s two 1890s-built hotels — The Breakers and the now-gone Royal Poinciana just west — Warren Frazee, best known as Alligator Joe, put on quite a show in a jungle-like spot near the west end of what later became Worth Avenue.

About a mile south of Henry Flagler’s two 1890s-built hotels, Warren Frazee, best known as Alligator Joe, put on quite a show.

02/07/2022

Unique sights, spectacular grandeur and fascinating history await you on the island in Palm Beach, if you know where to look. Discover the town's iconic landmarks and the history behind them.

07/06/2022

Did you know that Palm Beach once was home to a HoJo's restaurant? The restaurant was for years a staple in the island's South End, on South Ocean Boulevard just north of the bridge to Lake Worth.

The original building permit was issued in 1954 for the construction of a $65,000 Howard Johnson's at Palm Beach's South End location.

29/05/2022

In 1920, Palm Beach High School boys swimming captured the county's first ever championship.

Here’s the story of the team’s star. https://bit.ly/3z4paWq?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Historic_Palm_Beach

26/05/2022

In over 100 years of iconic sports moments, how do you pick 50 that stood out? We gave it a go. Look through our list of 50 historical moments that shaped Palm Beach County’s sports scene.

Palm Beach Post's 50 historic moments in sports including pro, college, high school, golf, tennis, auto racing and more going back to the 1920s.

21/05/2022

The building at 314 Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach will have a new occupant when it turns 100 years old in 2023.

The building turns 100 in 2023, but its Art Deco facade remains virtually untouched despite a century of changes.

19/05/2022

Having thrived as a business since William Howard Taft was president, this isn’t the first pandemic Pioneer Linens has experienced.

The one in 1918 ended in personal loss for Pioneer’s founder, but his business not only survived, it expanded.

The store opened in Lake Worth and moved to Clematis Street in West Palm after the 1928 hurricane demolished the original building.

16/05/2022

Beyond trunks full of gowns, jewels, tailed tuxedoes, walking dresses, parasols, feathered hats and other fashionable staples they brought to Palm Beach for their weekslong winter stays, elite Gilded Age travelers brought a myriad of other items.

Guns weren’t out of the question.

Northern guests of Flagler hotels were the main participants of shooting events on the island of Palm Beach

12/05/2022

On long-ago nights when George and Betty Montgomery fluidly waltzed or foxtrotted together with the skirted layers of her dress twirling, the surrounding hum of chit-chat and clinking silverware in The Breakers’ dining room would cease. The Breakers Palm Beach

George and Betty Montgomery were the king and queen of dance at the resort for generations

09/05/2022

Before joining 1920s Palm Beach society as the bride of a World War I lieutenant’s ghost, Muriel McCormick, a Chicago-area granddaughter of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, confronted her own restless spirit.

During a 'spiritual' meeting, Muriel McCormick met a specter later identified as George Alexander McKinlock, Jr.

07/05/2022

Cold case: What happened to Lena Teinila? In 1989, her body was found with "multiple stab wounds" near Mar-a-Lago. She's the only cold case homicide in Palm Beach.

Daughter says the fatal shooting of Lena Teinila's brother by police likely was the catalyst for mother's mental health decline.

11/10/2021

The story behind the name goes back more than 300 years, to July 31, 1715.

Collective name for Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties is derived from Spanish b***y lost at sea

04/10/2021

Gainesville is famous for the University of Florida. But it’s also home to two geographically unique sites: a sinkhole 12 stories deep and a prairie that every once in a while becomes a lake. Huh?

Bowl-shaped cavity 12 stories deep leads to miniature rainforest; Paynes Prairie – Florida’s first state preserve – is now a National Natural Landmark

28/09/2021

Over 100 years ago, a small group of residents voted to make their fledgling town a city in what was then Dade County, where the streets were named for the tropical plants new residents could grow in their own backyards. But someone messed up in the naming of Clematis Street.

Someone goofed in the naming of Clematis Street. Here's the story behind the name of West Palm Beach's iconic street in South Florida.

27/09/2021

On this Florida highway surrounded by rolling hills, is the angled horizon, or paranormal activity, responsible for cars that appear to defy gravity?

On Florida highway surrounded by rolling hills, is the angled horizon, or paranormal activity, responsible for cars that appear to defy gravity?

20/09/2021

Early on, executions were done by the individual counties, and prisoners often would be hanged in public.

Florida's death row had housed some high-profile killers