163 years ago
17 December 1859 - The following advertisement ran in the Cedar Key Telegraph: Fall and Winter Goods have just been received direct from New York on the schooner Black Squall. A complete assortment of dry-goods and groceries, ladies dress & fancy goods, hoop skirts, school-books & stationary, provisions, hardware & cuttlery, hats, boots & shoes, wood, pot & tin ware, stone ware & crockery, liquors, tobacco & segars. Prices very liberal and stock adapted to the wants of all. George Helvenston & Company. 130 years ago
19 July 1872 - On motion of N.R. Carter, a tax of 1/10 of 1% was levied for the support of Levy County`s fifteen common schools. Bronson; Way Key (white); Way Key (colored); Cedar Keys; Levyville; Clyatts; Hardees; Ebenezer; Levyville
(colored); Otter Creek; Charity; Black Dirt; Hodges Island; Wacasassa; and Oak Grove. The total amount of the assessment was $1,055.00. 48 years ago 06 May 1954 - A fire that went undetected until it was too late destroyed the home, garage, automobile and all the personal belongings of a well known Gulf Hammock family late Friday night. R.L. Mozo, his wife and 15 year old son returned about 10 P.M. from a political rally in Bronson to find their home burned to the ground. Believed to have started from a short circuit in a kitchen range the fire burned unnoticed until the house was almost completely engulfed and with the nearest fire department 18 miles away in Chiefland, no effort was made to call them to the blaze. The Mozo famly moved in with a married son, James Mozo, who also lives in Gulf Hammock. The elder Mozo operates a sawmill there and has been a resident for about 20 years. Nothing was saved in the fire and the loss, including a 1952 Pontiac sedan will total about $18,000.
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Levy County Clerk`s Office
Danny J. Shipp, Clerk of Court |
