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  • Title: CROSS FLORIDA BARGE CANAL
    Location:S.R. 19 south of Rodman.
    County: Putnam
    City: Rodman
    Description: Two and a-half miles to the east, at Rodeheaver Boys Ranch, President Lyndon B. Johnson, on February 27, 1964, dedicated the Start of Construction on the 185-MILE CROSS FLORIDA BARGE CANAL. An estimated audience of 15,000 attended.
    Sponsors: Sponsored by Canal Authority of Florida Design and construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District
  • Title: CROSS FLORIDA BARGE CANAL MEMORIAL
    Location: on private road off S.R. 19, S. of Rodman at Roden
    County: Putnam
    City: Rodman
    Description: CROSS FLORIDA BARGE CANAL MEMORIAL President Lyndon B. Johnson Dedicated the Start of Construction of the 185-Mile Long Canal at this Site on February 27, 1964.
    Sponsors: Sponsored by the Canal Authority of Florida Design and Construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District
  • Title: MELROSE WOMAN'S CLUB
    Location:307 Pine Street, in front of Woman's Club
    County: Putnam
    City: Melrose
    Description: Since its beginning as the Literary and Debating Society in 1890, the Melrose Woman's Club has been a major contributor to community development. The formation of the Improvement Society for Melrose in 1891 was one of its first accomplishments. The club has also undertaken beautification projects, given scholarships, sponsored educational programs, and in 1895, opened its library to the public. The clubhouse was planned and built of heart pine by a local carpenter. First known as "The Hall," the structure has been in continuous use as a clubhouse since 1893. the building became the Melrose Woman's Club in 1946.
    Sponsors: sponsored by the melrose woman's club in cooperation with department of state
  • Title: THE MOUNT ROYAL SITE
    Location:Mount Royal Mounds site, Off C.R. 309, 3 mi. S. of
    County: Putnam
    City: Welaka.
    Description: Indians constructed the mound and earthworks of this site between A.D. 1250 and 1500. They built the mound as a place to bury their dead, and it grew in phases. When Clarence B. Moore excavated portions of the mound in the 1890s, he discovered burials and artifacts scattered throughout. One of those artifacts was a copper plate embossed with designs identical to those which decorated a plate found in a mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. The Mount Royal Site is important because it helps demonstrate the extent of the prehistoric trade networks established by Eastern American Indians.
    Sponsors: sponsored by department of state
  • Title: FORT SHANNON
    Location:S.R. 100 in Fort Shannon Park
    County: Putnam
    City: Palatka
    Description: Established in May, 1838, this fort was one of the major quartermaster depots in Florida during the Second Seminole War. It operated under Gen. William J. Worth until he assumed command of the armies in Florida. Military facilities included a hospital, barracks, blockhouses, and stables for more than 400 horses. During the fort's existence, Palatka was military in appearance and under military control.
    Sponsors: In Cooperation With Palataka Junior Chamber of Commerce
  • Title: ROLLESTOWN
    Location:U.S. 17, east side of St. Johns River, E.Palatka P
    County: Putnam
    City: Palatka
    Description: Site of the colony of Denys Rolle, English philanthropist. The settlement, composed of 200 indentured servants from the streets of London, was founded in 1767. It did not prosper and the settlers scattered. Negro slaves were imported to tend cattle, cultivate citrus and extract turpentine. The colony was abandoned in 1783 when Britain ceded Florida to Spain. Rolle returned to England and the Negroes resettled in the Bahamas.
  • Title: PALATKA
    Location:S.R. 100 in front of Police station.
    County: Putnam
    City: Palatka
    Description: Established as a trading post in 1821, the settlement was burned in the Seminole War (1836). In 1838, the U.S. Government constructed Fort Shannon which served as a garrison, supply depot and hospital for the forts in the southern area of Florida. Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and William T. Sherman were stationed here. During the Civil War the city was occupied by Federal troops. In the postwar period, Palatka became one of the leading tourist centers of Florida.
  • Title: ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    Location:Main Street & Second Street.
    County: Putnam
    City: Palatka
    Description: Episcopal services in Palatka were first conducted in 1846 by the Rev. John F Young, later Bishop of Florida (1867-1885). The parish was organized in 1853, and the church completed in 1854. During the Civil War, St. Mark's was used as a barracks by Federal troops and suffered considerable damage. After the war the church served as the missionary center of the Episcopal Church in the St. Johns Valley. The original building, though altered, is still in use today.
    Sponsors: In Cooperation With Putnam County Historical Society
  • Title: ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH
    Location:Crescent City
    County: Putnam
    City: Crescent City
    Description: Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won, it is never given; it is exacted. Asa Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida on April 15, 1889 to Rev. James Williams and Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. His father was a minister at this church where Randolph attended as a youth. In 1925 he became the founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and remained president until 1968. He founded a group that later became the League of Non Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation. He was the first president (1960-66) of the Negro American Labor Council. Randolph was the originator of two major marches on Washington. One was held in 1941; the other was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which brought more than 200,000 people to the capital on August 28, 1963. Two years later he formed the A. Philip Randolph Institute for community leaders to study the causes of poverty. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Johnson in 1964. He died May 16, 1979 in New York City. In 1989 Randolph became the second Union President to be honored on a U. S. Postage Stamp. No individual did more to help the poor, the disposed and the working class in the United States and around the world.
    Sponsors: THE A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE