Word: palatka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from...
...were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired or in process of acquisition, 6,600 men were at work, excavation was proceeding at 100,000 cubic yards...
Near Ocala the water level in the limestone is 40 ft. above sea level. From the point where the canal cuts into the limestone south of Palatka to the Gulf, the bottom of the canal will be over 30 ft. below sea level. Thus the question, important to all of Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water...
...Palatka, Fla., H. F. Underwood, jeweler, sold a handsome golf trophy to Palatka Country Club. No golfer, he was offered a "duffer's handicap" to play in the club tournament. He borrowed a set of clubs, won back the trophy...