Florida Archives and Manuscripts Repositories

Genealogy Room with many reference books, cemetery information, historical & genealogical series publications, and historical family information. We have cabinets with files for sites & places, transportation & accommodations, biographical, historical district areas, business & industry, organizations and education. There is microfilm with spotty coverage of Putnam County newspapers from 1875 to 1888 and then from 1902 to 2007. Copies of the Palatka Daily News, June 2008 to almost present time can be found on the Archives section of http://www.putnam-fl.com/bocc/index.php/county-departments/departments-j-z/library/archives.

Operates the Bronson-Mulholland House and the Putnam Historic Museum. Contains census records from 1850-1885, 1910-1920 and marriage records from 1849-1887, a large city Sanborn fire insurance map collection starting in 1885 through the 1950's, telephone directories, postcards, photographs, highschool yearbooks and several books about the local and family histories and development of the city.