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6 unusual facts about Lake Wörth


Bill Meredith

William Stevens Meredith (1960 – Lake Worth, Florida) is an American music and sports writer, journalist, drummer, percussionist and singer.

Hoffman's Chocolate

The homegrown chocolate-maker initiated the building of a corporate-owned store in downtown Lake Worth, at 705 Lake Ave., which would serve as the prototype for the franchises.

Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway

The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the JT&KW's Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth, where steamers continued south.

Lake Wörth

Wörthsee, a glacial lake in the Starnberg district of Bavaria, Germany

Wörthersee, an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia

The Western Lands

Scenes that are unmistakably auto-biographical include vignettes where Burroughs takes out evidence of amphetamine prescription bottles his mother gave him to sink with a large stone at the bottom of Lake Worth, Florida.


Andrea Hall

Both were born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, raised in Lake Worth, Florida and graduated in 1965 from Lake Worth High School.

Florida State Road 882

To the east of US 1, Forest Hill Boulevard intersects with SR 5 (formerly northbound US 1) three blocks east of US 1 and continues to Flagler Drive at the edge of Lake Worth.

Gloria Guinness

The Guinnesses had an apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, an 18th-century farmhouse called Villa Zanroc in Epalinges near Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plied the Mediterranean in the summer, a seven-story house on Avenue Matignon in Paris, decorated by Georges Geffroy (1903–1971), a stud farm in Normandy, Haras de Piencourt near Guy de Rothschild, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Florida.

Trea Turner

Turner attended Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth, Florida, where he played for his school's baseball team for all four years.


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