The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The city was previously farmland known as the Seminole Improvement District that began in the early 1960s, but renamed Westlake when real estate development started in September 2014, after Minto Communities purchased 3,800 acres a year before (September 2013) for $51 million, and later bought an additional 200 acres in 2014. The City of Westlake officially became the 39th municipality in Palm Beach County on June 22, 2016. It was named, in part, as a nod to Weston in neighboring Broward County, a similar large-scale community planned by JMB Realty and the Arvida company in the 1980s, and because both cities have many artificial lakes. In November 2019, Wellington Regional Medical Center purchased 35 acres for $12.3 million to establish a presence in the community.
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Start Westlake’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Westlake’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Westlake, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Westlake is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Westlake has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Kelsey City City Hall in Lake Park, 14.4 miles away.
Westlake and the nearest listed places
Closest to Westlake
Kelsey City City HallLake Park · Building14.4miLoxahatchee BattlefieldJupiter · Site14.6mi
Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Burial SiteWest Palm Beach · Site14.7mi
Pine Ridge HospitalWest Palm Beach · Masonry Vernacular14.8mi
Seaboard Coastline Railroad Passenger StationWest Palm Beach · Built 192514.9miHow a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.