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History · Lake Harbor

A history of Lake Harbor,
then and now

Postcards, papers and photographs of Lake Harbor from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

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From Lake Harbor’s archive · credits on each photo

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Lake Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida despite being physically and culturally closer to the Florida Heartland. The population was 49 at the 2020 US census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 45 to 49 (+9%).

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lake Harbor yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1930s12 items · Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Fl…LOC
1940–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Finish Lake Harbor’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewLoading bean pickers. Lake Harbor…, 1939: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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By decade

Lake Harbor, decade by decade

1930s12 items
Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCLoading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migrant agricultural worker coming home. Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCMigrant agricultural worker coming home. Lake Harbor, Flori…1939Migrant laborers cutting cabbages near Lake Harbor in Lake Okeechobee region, FloridaLOCMigrant laborers cutting cabbages near Lake Harbor in Lake …1939Migrant Negro agricultural workers quartersLOCMigrant Negro agricultural workers quarters1939Negro migrant agricultural workers quartersLOCNegro migrant agricultural workers quarters1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCCutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Flo…1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCCutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Flo…1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCCutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Flo…1939Migrant vegetable pickers living quarters near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCMigrant vegetable pickers living quarters near Lake Harbor,…1939Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCMigratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Ha…1939Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCMigratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Ha…1939Migrant vegetable picker's living quarters near Lake Harbor, FloridaLOCMigrant vegetable picker's living quarters near Lake Harbor…1939
1940s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Lake Harbor is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lake Harbor has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Old Belle Glade Town Hall in Belle Glade, 8.6 miles away.

Lake Harbor and the nearest listed places

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Old Belle Glade Town HallClewiston Historic SchoolsFirst Clewiston Post OfficeDixie Crystal TheatreScharnberg HouseExecutive House

Closest to Lake Harbor

Old Belle Glade Town HallBelle Glade · Building8.6miClewiston Historic SchoolsClewiston · Building8.8miFirst Clewiston Post OfficeClewiston · Building9miDixie Crystal TheatreClewiston · Built 19419miScharnberg HouseClewiston · Building9mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Old Belle Glade Town Hall’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Lake Harbor?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Lake Harbor’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida (1939) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 South Bay📜 Belle Glade📜 Clewiston📜 Pahokee

From the Library of Congress (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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