The Palatka Daily News (Palatka, Fla.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
909 issues from 1884 to 1888, published in Palatka, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
Palatka is located on the upper St. Johns River and serves as the seat of Putnam County, Florida. The town was crossed by a number of railroads–the Florida Southern; the Georgia Southern and Florida; the Jacksonville, the Tampa and Key West; and the St. Augustine and Palatka; and Palatka served as a junction for routes continuing to the west and south. 1865-95 is known as the “golden age” for Palatka, when it not just home to these major railroads, but also to seven steamboat lines. Palatka was the major shipping point for citrus and timber, as well as a popular destination for tourists.
However, on November 7, 1884, a fire devastated Palatka, practically destroying the entire. By 1890, Palatka had reemerged as a “more refined city,” with eight first-class hotels and three new residential districts. Unfortunately, the “Great Freezes of 1894-1895” destroyed most of the region’s citrus groves, wiping out Palatka’s citrus industry. Following this devastation, Palatka could no longer keep up with Jacksonville’s rise as an economic center. Although still of importance, Palatka’s railroads could no longer compete with those in Jacksonville, and Palatka’s steamboats operated only during tourist seasons. Palatka came to rely on the expanding lumber business, which made Palatka the industrial center it is today.
The Palatka Daily News operated from 1884 to 1888. The Democratic paper appeared daily every morning, except on Mondays. It was managed by W.W. Randall and published by…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Palatka, Florida, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress