Levy County History

120 years ago

From the Board Minutes 1895

A petition from a number of citizens asking that a public road be opened from
Williston to intersect Range line 18 at Mr. Eppersons, then between Stafford and
Cooter Pond to Hunters Store thence to the Bronson Cotton Plant thence to the
County line. S.J. Fryars presented to the board, objection to this route having
been made it was without consideration ordered that a road be opened as
requested. Commissioners appointed to lay out said road were, George W. Willis,
Munt Brooks, W. H. Blitch

and

Mr. Culpepper Hodges filed a bond of $500.00 to keep a ferry across the
Withlachoochee River at Hodges. And the same was approved and he was authorized to operate said ferry and change the following rates of ferry age to continue five (5) years: 2 horses or ox team 75 cents, 2 horses or ox team 50 cents, buggy and horse, 30 cents, mand and horse 20 cents, cattle per head 2 cents. Double the rate

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Levy County Clerk`s Office
Danny J. Shipp, Clerk of Court