Lake Okeechobee The description speaks to the migrant African American laborers working in this area during the agricultural season in the 1920s. Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades are settings in Patrick D. Smith's novel "A Land Remembered", chronicling the effects of modernization upon the lake and the Seminole tribe. Lake Okeechobee is famously mentioned in Hank Williams Jr.'s number one Billboard country hit song "Dixie on My Mind", in 1981. When comparing country life to big city life: ""I've always heard lots about the big apple / So I thought I'd come up here and see. / But all I've seen so
Effects of the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane in Florida Guard members to serve in other functions as well as patrolling against looting. Several mansions in Palm Beach were robbed, including very expensive paintings stolen at one home. Martial law was declared on September 19, but rescinded the following day. Checkpoints were ordered by Palm Beach County Sheriff Robert C. Baker along the main highways at Lake Worth and Jupiter. At the south shore Lake Okeechobee communities, Dr. Buck took charge. Because no vehicles were operable, roads flooded, and minimal food and water supplies, Buck ordered nearly 100 women and children to walk to West Palm Beach – a distance