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West Palm Beach is the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, located immediately west of Palm Beach across Lake Worth Lagoon and approximately 68 miles north of Miami, with a 2020 census population of 117,415. The oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida, West Palm Beach was incorporated on November 5, 1894, two years before Miami, and serves as a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area with 6.14 million residents. The area was first settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a diverse community of settlers attracted to Lake Worth, named after Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who cultivated tropical fruits and vegetables for northern shipment. Henry Flagler platted the city in 1893 as a servant community for workers in Palm Beach's grand hotels, purchasing the original townsite from settlers Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse for $45,000 upon the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. The early settlement quickly developed into a brick and stone city with established building codes, replacing the initial tents and shanties with permanent structures. Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, located 45 miles north of Miami, with a population of 97,422 in the 2020 census making it the 23rd-largest city in Florida. The city was first incorporated as "Bocaratone" on August 2, 1924, and then as "Boca Raton" on May 26, 1925, with its modern form developed predominantly by architect Addison Mizner starting in the 1920s, who influenced the area's Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Originally inhabited by the Glades culture and later Spanish and British colonial powers, Boca Raton became a key center in the digital computer industry as the birthplace of IBM's first personal computer in the 1980s. Today the city is known for its luxury beach culture centered around shopping destinations like Town Center at Boca Raton, and is home to major institutions including Florida Atlantic University, Lynn University, and the Evert Tennis Academy founded by tennis legend Chris Evert, while also serving as headquarters for the ODP Corporation, which operates Office Depot and OfficeMax. The city maintains a distinctive character through strict development codes limiting commercial signage and advertisements, resulting in major thoroughfares free of billboards and increased green spaces. Delray Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, located 52 miles north of Miami and part of the Miami metropolitan area, with a 2020 population of 66,846. Originally inhabited by the Jaega and Tequesta peoples, the area was developed beginning in 1884 by African American settlers from Florida's panhandle, followed by Republican Congressman William S. Linton, who founded the farming community of Linton in 1894 before the settlement was renamed Delray in 1901 after a Detroit neighborhood. The town was officially incorporated in 1911 and became known for pineapple and tomato farming, with the crop dominating the local economy until competition from Cuban imports and Everglades drainage reduced production in the 1920s. By the 1920s, the Florida land boom shifted Delray's economy toward tourism and real estate speculation, transforming it from an agricultural center into a growing coastal destination.