Pahokee

lake shore sugar town

Founded

1922

Place

Pahokee, Palm Beach County

District

The Glades

Status as of 12 September 2026

Operating city, population 5,524 at the 2020 census.

Connections

3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.016 (rank 65 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.009 (rank 48) · outside share 0.00

Confidence

Medium · sources: [WPAH] [JMFS] [WKVL] (register)

Incorporated in 1922 on drained muck, Pahokee ships winter vegetables north in refrigerated trains and is called the Winter Vegetable Capital of the World in the 1930s, as reported by a 1939 federal guide [WPAH]. After Cuban supply is cut, agriculture shifts to mechanized sugarcane around the Osceola Farms mill of 1960 [WPAH][JMFS].

Connections

Location and lineage

• grew out ofEverglades Drainage Districtdistrict canals drain the muck the city is founded on1907 onward
• tied venture or seat ofOsceola Farmsmainstay employer of the town1960 to present

Support

• supported byFEC Kissimmee Valley Linethe winter vegetable trains run on this corridor1923 onward