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Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, located about 63 miles (101 km) north of Miami.The city's name is derived from the body of water along its eastern border known as the Lake Worth Lagoon, which was named for General William J. Worth, who led United States Army forces during the last part of the Second Seminole War.
The Historic Old Town Commercial District (also known as downtown Lake Worth Beach) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on September 22, 2001) located in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by FEC, M Street, Lucerne Avenue, and 1st Avenue S. It contains 46 historic buildings.
The lagoon is named "Lake Worth" in honor of William J. Worth, last commander of United States troops in the Second Seminole War. [1] The Seminole language [Note 1] name for the lagoon, as given by a Seminole informant in 1870, was Hypoluxo, translated as "water all around no get out", referring to the landlocked status of the lagoon.
In the mid-19th century the body of water that is now the Lake Worth Lagoon was a freshwater lake. This had been named Lake Worth in honor of William J. Worth, commander of the Eighth Infantry Regiment in the Second Seminole War. There were no rivers or streams flowing into the lake; all of the flow into the lake was by ground seepage from the ...
The downtown Lake Worth Beach proposed site plan is located on a space, valued by the city at about $3.3 million, at the southwest corner of Lake Avenue and South M Street.
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John Prince Memorial Park has a 48-acre (0.19 km 2) campground, out of the park's total 726 acres (2.94 km 2), which features 352 sites for tents or RVs. [8] The campground was founded in 1956 after the Gulf Stream Council (the local council of Boy Scouts of America) donated Camp Osborne to Palm Beach County, one year before the establishment of Tanah Keeta Scout Reservation near Jonathan ...
The South Lake Worth Inlet, also known as the Boynton Inlet, is an artificial cut through a barrier beach connecting the south end of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach County, Florida with the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet is 130 feet (40 m) wide and 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.7 m) deep.