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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
More about the Christian religion in the area: The cornerstone
for the Methodist church, which stood at the corner of Columbia and
Orange streets, notes that the local church was organized about 1840.
Three years later (1843), a Mr. Starling Scarborough of Georgia, a
paymaster in the Seminole Indian Wars, joined others to build a log
church on the south side of Lake DeSoto; Rev. Kinsey Chambers
was the pastor there. In 1845, Dr. J.C. Ley was pastor of Ocean
Pond Methodist Mission, which included Branford, Columbia,
Hamilton, and Suwannee counties.
When Florida was
admitted to the United
States as the 27th
state,
a 27th star was added
to the flag on July 4,
1845.
Beginning in 1845, when Florida became a state, officials
appointed the local probate judge to be the acting superintendent of
schools for the county. Thus in 1845 Robert Brown became the
acting superintendent, to be succeeded in 1846 by James S. Jones.
A letter from 1850 showing the town name, Alligator (see arrow)
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