<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0MDoCh_1EwxmK7B00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0MDoCh_1EwxmK7B00" width="600" height="399" ><figcaption>Sunday school outing – Palatka, Florida, 1890. Florida Photographic Collection</figcaption></figure>September 8In 1878, a hurricane hit the area, damaging groves, ruining the citrus harvest, and destroying the new bridge over Rice Creek.In 1910, Henis Peterman was putting the finishing touches on the judge’s black and birds-eye cypress bench for the circuit court room of the new courthouse. On a raised platform, the bench’s sides and front featured beautiful panels connecting the corner columns and ornamented with scrollwork. In 1911, the Putnam County Board granted permission to reestablish the old Bellamy Road on the Clay-Putnam County line.In 1915, Palatka aldermen discovered that since 1888 the city had not had a charter. To set an ordinance, they had to go back to the original Act of 1852, when the town of about 200 to 300 inhabitants was first organized, and then follow changes made to date; then, in 1857, abolishing the old charter, the legislature passed a new charter providing for all phases of city government. The charter of 1887 granted power in all matters; however, the Supreme Court of Florida held the act of 1887 to be void; special acts of the legislature passed since 1887 fully &amp; completely empowered Palatka to collect taxes, but the acts of 1915 authorized cities and towns to amend their charters and adopt charters for their government. The act called for an election to choose members of the charter commission, whose work would be submitted for public approval.In 1919, Palatka Library Association held its first meeting.In 1921, Principal W.H. Cassells and Coach G.M. Shearouse had a dream: thirty mostly big, husky fellows showed up for the initial practice for Mellon High School’s first football team in the school’s history. The Palatka Rotary Club paid half of Shearouse’s salary.In 1938, Sen. Claude Pepper told Sen. Henry McKenzie the President had approved a WPA project ($11,993) for Melrose School.In 1940, nine crafts left the Palatka docks on a 50-mile outboard race to Crescent City and back on the St. Johns River.In 1940, many people from Putnam County went to St. Augustine to attend the 3-day pageantry depicting the founding of St. Augustine, with many high-ranking Catholic Church officials participating.In 1944, B-25 Mitchell bomber armorer and aerial gunner, Sgt. John W. Miller was recently cited by the President as a member of a Distinguished Air Force Unit for outstanding service in Tunisia and Sicily and for providing air support for beachheads in Italy.In 1945, the War Department approved deepening the St. Johns River channel from Palatka to Sanford to a depth of 12 feet, provided all lands were donated.In 1949, the Bert Hodge Post 45, American Legion, and Palatka Lodge No. 1232 BPOE ordered a World War II Memorial bearing the names of Putnam casualties, with plans to dedicate it on Armistice Day.In 1963, Lora Britt, Palatka Daily News editor, wrote about the old “watering trough” that stood in the middle of paved shell rock Lemon Street and present-day 2nd Street, originally the dirt Front Street. It was later moved to 4th street next to the court house.September 7In 1878, Palatka Herald reported, “The Etoniah Navigation Company of Putnam County, organized several months since, and having for its object the improvement of the Etoniah Creek and draining the best prairie lands near its head waters, propose to begin work during the next week.”In 1906, Capt. Geo. Crotty of the steamer Crescent recently got one of the latest Edison phonographs and now had a brass horn attachment over five feet long with a vast opening. With this regular concert-size horn, the tones of his records were greatly increased in volume and sweetness. He had all of the latest Edison records.In 1917, the street committee in Crescent City decreed that the healthy, beautiful oak tree growing in the center of Central Avenue–one of the city’s past attractions–had to be cut down. It was easier and quicker to cut a big tree down than to grow one.In 1921, the Palatka city council badly needed funds and did not have enough money on hand to meet current expenses; transferring funds from city bonds would impair their negotiable value. The city owed more than $22,000 in back taxes, so budgets needed to be readjusted, and overdue taxes needed to be collected.In 1936, instead of a street parade on Labor Day, the Junior Chamber of Commerce had bicycle races and a dog and cat show. Winner Paul Bolton was the only boys’ bike entrant under 10; bike winner between 10–12 was Dale Ernsberger; Warnell Taylor won the 12–15 boys’ race, and Fred Bohen had the best decorated bicycle, each winning one dollar. Other winners received Howell passes. Billy Baker and Sarah Murray won the tots’ tricycle contest. Following the races was a pet show, with Charlotte Gross receiving 1st prize in the dog class while Clyde Cooper won in the cat group. Other Labor Day event winners included Wilbur Browning, step plane race for outboard motors, Joe Bock, swimming meet, and Pierce Browning, aquaplane contest. In 1945, Staff Sergeant Samuel E. Brown, son of Mrs. Mary Brown of Palatka, was awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Bronze Star for action at Leyte in the Philippines.In 1945, Clayton Decker, one of nine survivors whose submarine, the Tang, was sunk October 25, 1944, was released from a Japanese prison camp. He said the submarine was sunk when one of its own torpedoes proved defective and circled around, hitting the stern of the craft. Ensign Basil Pearce of East Palatka, son of B.C. Pearce, was lost.In 1946, Carl Swisher of Jacksonville purchased $5,047.79 in state tax deeds, buying up nearly 200 lots in Bonny Lakes subdivision around Grandin.In 1955, the school board asked for a study for a new junior high school on Husson Avenue across from the new Wm. D. Moseley Elementary School. New construction included: (1) a $79,000 auditorium at Crescent City High School; (2) 4 new classrooms and a cafetorium at Bostwick, costing $45,000; (3) 6 classrooms at Central Academy High School on North 19th Street, costing $45,000; and a 6-classroom wing at Moseley, costing $60,000.</div></body>

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In 1878, a hurricane hit the area, damaging groves, ruining the citrus harvest, and destroying the new bridge over Rice Creek. In 1910, Henis Peterman was putting the finishing touches on the judge’s black and birds-eye cypress bench for the circuit court room of the new courthouse. On a raised platform, the bench’s sides and front featured beautiful panels connecting the corner columns and ornamented with scrollwork.

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In 1878, a hurricane hit the area, damaging groves, ruining the citrus harvest, and destroying the new bridge over Rice Creek. In 1910, Henis Peterman was 

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