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Levy County History

Levy County History

Toni Collins

140 years ago


September 1863 - Captain James Tucker, owner of the steamboat Madison, a vessel of 99-ton, 120 feet long, 22 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, which carried mail and passengers on the Suwannee River, headed his boat to Old Troy Springs in Lafayette County to sink her until the war should cease. During the war her boilers were removed, split lengthwise, carried to the sea coast and used in the
manufacture of salt. Her smokestakes were cut up into convenient lengths and used by neighboring farmers as funnels for their sugar furnaces. The cabins were torn up and the lumber used by whomsoever wanted it, and when the war ended, all that remained of the Madison were her hull resting on the rocks under the the crystal waters of Old Troy spring.

121 years ago


23 February 1883 - The Levy Enterprise, a Levy County newspaper, carried the following advertisement: FOR SALE, At Reasonable Rates, FINE ORANGE LANDS. Situated on public road, one to two miles north of railroad station at Bronson,
Levy county, Fla. Offered in lots of 10, 20, 40, or 80 acres each lot with fine building site on the road and sloping back to the lake in the rear. Mr. F.A. Arnold living on the adjoining farm will show lands and give terms or address. L.W. Hamlin, Cedar Keys, Fla.

48 years ago


21 December 1956 - The Levy County Board of County Commissioners held a Special Meeting to pay the salaries of the County Employees for the month of December.
The salaries of the Road and Bridge Department for the month were: L.F. Moring, Road Foreman - $175.00; Floyd Hanna - $135.00; J.G. Etheridge - $135.00; L.A. Roach - $135.00; L.E. Wright - $75.00; Earnest Parker - $90.00; Farnell
Priest - $75.00; D.M. Bryant - $90.00; Frank Brock - $70.00; Ray Owen - $80.00; J.L. Townsend - $60.00; Ben Long, Jr. - $50.00; and Herman Munden - $50.00.

From the Archives & History Center
Levy County Clerk`s Office
Danny J. Shipp, Clerk of Court

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