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On the wooded Palm City Bridge, c. 1920

Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 119) with the following caption: "Isabel Jennings and Girlie Reynolds pose on the Palm City Bridge."

The Palm City Bridge opened in 1919. It was designed by J.W. Bow and built by C.T. Dawkins Co. of Jacksonville. It was 2,600 feet long and was a bascule style drawbridge and was replaced in 1970.

Tags Bridges

Sawmill at Palm City Farms, 1914

Group portrait in front of sawmill machinery.

Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 106) with the caption: "Lizzy and Charles Beyer pose beside their sawmill with their son Charlie and two workmen, one of whom is probably Lizzie's brother, Edward Ludwig.”

Tags Children, Machinery, Sawmills

Cart of hay, Palm City Farms, 1923

Horse drawn cart filled with hay.

Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 99) with the caption: "William and Mary Goepfert stand beside John DeLano on hay wagon."

Tags Carts & wagons, Hay, Horses

Horse led plow, 1923

Farmer rides in horse or mule drawn plow. Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 99) with the following caption: "John DeLano harvests hay on his Palm City Farm."

DeLano was a local pioneer. He moved to Palm City from Montana in 1912. After arriving, he helped to market the Palm City Farms development and assisted with promotional picnics and other events presented by the Palm Beach Land Company. DeLano moved to Stuart after selling his farm in 1925.

Tags Farming, Horses, Plows

Palm City Sunday school portrait, c. 1915

Crowd of adults and children stand around the front porch of the one room schoolhouse in Palm City. Description on back of photo reads "Palm City Sunday School in old school, long before there was a church."

The school building was built around 1914 on Loop Road, near land that became part of Zarella Farm in Palm City.

Tags Buildings, Schools, Sunday schools

Palm City school bus, 1930

Palm City school children pose around a school bus.

Tags School buses, School children

Church after hurricane, 1928

Damaged Palm City Congregational Church building after the 1928 hurricane.

Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 95) with the following caption: "Since the Palm City Congregational Church had the support of Congregationalists elsewhere, it was rebuilt within months."

Tags Buildings, Churches, Ruins

First Palm City Church, 1921

Three figures stand in front of the First Palm City Congregational Church. The building was dedicated on 18 December 1921.

Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 95) with the following caption: "The original Bible Union Congregational Church was built by Palm City pioneers on land donated by Charles Chillingworth." Chillingworth was the original developer of Palm City.

Tags Buildings, Churches