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Home My WebLink About1980 NPB (North County Phone Book)No FEN Couttrn( ec;ciK, fro- Aoc i9e13 7 A.4.1 NORTH PALM BEACH / POP oN A few fad about the area that Is now the Village of North Palm min_ Book in the early 1920's the area where our village now Winds was ITtcludad in the hands parched by Harry S. Kelsey, Prarpdent of East Coast Finarice Company. At that tlma the area was relarrec1 to as "The World's Vielnter Playground", The fast fioaet Finance Company went bankrupt durFng In the 1929 depression. Tesdem Incorporated, a Sir Harry Oaks Corporation, bought their holdings. The area passed successively through the hands Cf Ratph Stolkin srid insurance magnet, John D. Mac Arthur_ In 1955 the Ross Brothers Firm_ purchased 4 square miles from Mac Arthur's rawest. This was Swampland which was bordered on the north by an unused Country club, on the east by US. I, on the south by a trickle of water known only to natives of the area as the Ea -man Feuer, and on the west by more undeve4oPed acreA9e. The Village of Nadh Palm Beach was organized under Chapter 3148, Laws of FForida, ACI of the Fkorlda Legislature of Talfaha$- sea, the 24th clay of October A.O. 1956.