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Canal Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County, Florida, northeast of Pahokee.

In 1909, Canal Point became the first White settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee, in an area where archaeological evidence from nearby Big Mound City shows the Calusa people lived from about 500 BCE to 1650 CE.

Canal Point grew around the West Palm Beach Canal, completed around 1917, which connected Lake Okeechobee at Canal Point to West Palm Beach and let local farms ship crops out via the Florida East Coast Railway.

The Southern States Land and Timber Company began planting sugarcane around Canal Point in 1917, and sugar is still the backbone of the local economy.

Conners Highway, completed in 1924 and mostly following the path of the West Palm Beach Canal, gave Canal Point its first road for shipping farm crops by motor vehicle.

Unlike other communities along the southeastern and eastern shores of Lake Okeechobee, Canal Point was relatively unscathed by the deadly 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, taking on roughly 1.5 to 2.5 feet of water with one death.

Canal Point's economy never fully recovered after construction of the Herbert Hoover Dike limited boat traffic on Lake Okeechobee in the 1930s.

The 2020 census counted 344 people and 107 households in Canal Point, and just over half of its residents, about 53%, were Hispanic or Latino.

Almost the entire population of Canal Point works in agriculture, as independent farmers or as employees of large sugar cooperatives such as the U.S. Sugar Corporation, Osceola Farms, and Fanjul Sugar.

Canal Point is home to the USDA Sugarcane Field Station, whose original laboratory and office building was constructed in 1922.