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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · by Nancy Alvers

    Today in History – Sept. 9 - Palatka Daily News (opens the original)

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    Captain Will Newman sitting on the dock with dog and cat – Palatka, Florida, 1920. In 1898, 131 Palatkans asked that the bicycle ordinance requiring bicyclists to carry lanterns be repealed. In 1907, the F.M. Davis & Sons Cypress Tank Factory again did business in its new, enlarged quarters. A leading Palatka industry for years, the factory was reduced to ashes on March 14th, a loss of over $50,000. In 1908, contractors began laying sidewalks on Water, Lemon, and Oak streets. A foundation of cem

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · by Nancy Alvers

    Today in History – Sept. 3 - Palatka Daily News (opens the original)

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    A car blowout between Palatka and St. Augustine in 1915 In 1887, Putnam County had 64 public schools. In 1909, the Florida agent for the New York Produce News in his article about San Mateo wrote, “This little city is in Putnam County on the east bank of the St. Johns River,” the terminus of branch of the Florida East Coast Railway and with fine river transportation, giving it reasonable freight charges; last year 35,000 boxes were shipped and growers expected to ship 50,000 boxes of oranges and

  3. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · by Nancy Alvers

    Today in History – Aug. 29 - Palatka Daily News (opens the original)

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    Placing the cornerstone – Palatka 1916 Florida Photographic Collection In 1764, James Grant, first British governor of Florida (1764–1771) arrived in St. Augustine. The next month, Denys Rolle arrived with his first group of colonists to settle “first, at Mount Pleasant upon the River St. Johns, where he has been for six months but later to move up the river to a spot that pleased him better.” He finally settled on a bluff on the east side of the river and named the settlement Rollestown, later

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · by Nancy Alvers

    Today in History – Thursday Aug. 27 - Palatka Daily News (opens the original)

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    Aerial view of the Hudson Pulp and Paper Company – Palatka, 1900. The Florida Memory Project In 1854, the captain of the Savannah steamer Welaka, carrying mail, freight and passengers from Savannah to Palatka, was fired upon at Jacksonville for defying a medical quarantine during a yellow fever epidemic. A newspaper reported, “it must have been a momentous day because if the boat did not travel the river, residents in Palatka and St. Augustine did not receive their mail. Worse yet, they did not

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · by Nancy Alvers

    Today in History – Aug 25. - Palatka Daily News (opens the original)

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    In 1885, Capt. T.H. Brown reported that all the trestles, log walls and culverts had been completed to within a mile of Seville as Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway work made its way to Sanford “as fast as men and money can do it.” In 1905, while drilling a series of wells for the Atlantic Coast Line RR at their water tank in Palatka, H. Merwin found a soft water-bearing sand rock at a depth of about 60 feet. Analysis of the water prove it to be such a pure and good soft water that the comp

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