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When Lake Worth was a Lake

By Tim Frater / January 2, 2014

It’s not uncommon to hear folks around here refer to the intracoastal off West Palm as “the lake,” especially if they’re up in years.  That expression never made much sense to me, but those old folks actually know their stuff… Up until around the time of the Civil War, the Lake Worth Lagoon was a…

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