What’s with Flagler? Nearly everything in West Palm Beach traces back to one man. Henry Flagler — Standard Oil partner, railroad magnate — came down the Florida coast in the 1890s laying his Florida East Coast Railway, and decided the barrier island across the lagoon would make a glittering winter resort for wealthy Northerners. But a resort needs a workforce, a depot, a downtown. So in 1893 Flagler laid out a working town on the mainland to serve the island, paid two settlers $45,000 for the site, ran his rails in, and named it for exactly where it sat: West Palm Beach. The city has been Flagler’s ever since.
Today West Palm Beach is waterfront promenades and palm-lined avenues, the Norton and the Kravis, Clematis nightlife and the Intracoastal breeze. Our West Palm Beach designs gather that identity — the alligator emblem, Flagler’s railroad city, the mainland-and-island story — into wearable form. West Palm Beach, Florida — Flagler’s city on the Intracoastal, where the railroad came south and the palms never quit.
Why People Visit West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach rewards visitors who want culture with their coastline: a serious arts scene, a lively downtown, historic neighborhoods under the palms, and the Intracoastal at the center of it all. Add the island just across the water and the year-round South Florida sun, and Flagler’s mainland city makes an easy case for itself.
