Courtyard at The Breakers luxury beachfront resort in the stylish, decidedly upscale barrier island community of Palm Beach, Florida. When its first settlers arrived in the mid-1800s, the remote, sandswept area was known as “Lake Worth,” named for a U.S. Army general. But word of the location’s beauty soon spread. The city is said to have received its name from the wreck of a ship carrying palm coconuts. Its first hotel, the Coconut Grove House, opened in the early 1890s, and the rush to build lavish estates and luxury hotels was on. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2020.