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3 unusual facts about Palatka


Crescent City, Florida

The city is located on two lakes and is part of the Palatka Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Elko, Georgia

The railroad depot was the center of business and social life in Elko, and crowds greeted the daily trains that ran from Macon, Georgia through Valdosta, Georgia to Palatka, Florida.

Palatka Daily News

The Palatka Daily News is a local newspaper published in Palatka, Florida, USA.


Bronson House

Bronson-Mulholland House, Palatka, Florida, listed on the NRHP in Putnam County, Florida

Bronson-Mulholland House

Judge Isaac H. Bronson probably first considered moving to Palatka, Florida in 1852 when the "Palatka Tract" of about 1,220 acres was conveyed in trust to him by three prominent Palatka families - the Reids, the Carrs, and the Burts.

The Bronson-Mulholland House, (also known as the Judge Isaac H. Bronson House and as Sunny Point), is an historic site located at 100 Madison Street, in Palatka, Florida.

Charlie LaPradd

He later served as the president of the three-campus St. Johns River Community College in Orange Park, Palatka and St. Augustine from 1966 to 1972.

Larimer

Larimer Memorial Library, Palatka, Florida, on the National Register of Historic Places

Medwin Peek

Peek was born January 26, 1900, in Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, to Gouverneur Frank Peek and Rebecca Medwin Hyde.

Spanish missions in Florida

Following shortly after the success of the Mocama missions, the Spanish established missions among the Agua Fresca (Eastern Utina or Freshwater Timucua) along the middle St. Johns River, from roughly present-day Palatka south to Lake George.

St. Johns River Water Management District

It becomes a part of history, though selective integration may be necessary--> at offices in Palatka, Jacksonville, Maitland and Palm Bay.

WDYZ

Because of its signal strength, WDYZ can be heard throughout central Florida, from coast to coast, and from Sebring to Palatka, using a directional antenna to protect WMYM in Miami (also a Radio Disney station) and WGML in Hinesville, Georgia.


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