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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Chapter Twelve: 1920 - 1929
The aftermath of World War I was felt in the 1920s in Lake
City as many men had gone off to fight in the war. The federal
government offered health care to the veterans at the U.S. Public
Service Hospital Number 63, beginning in 1920. That facility slowly
increased in size till it is one of the largest in Lake City today. The
Great Depression, which began at the end of the decade, would have
profound effects in the city, county, and state.
Little Owen Scofield posed that decade with a goat-pulled
cart that advertised Lake City as Florida’s Gateway,
a distinction that the city has long held.
(Notice arrow pointing to the 1928 date.)
Columbia High School
The 1920 CHS football team traveled to Cuba to play The
Club Athletico de Cuba of Havana and thus became the first and
maybe still the only high school football team in the country to play a
game outside the United States. The Cuban team won, 27 – 0, on
New Year’s Day, 1921, before some fifteen thousand fans, who each
paid $10 a ticket.
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