Pulling into Port

Plans to revamp Palatka Barge Port inch forward

  • Sam Sullivan, Putnam County’s grants, projects and legislative affairs coordinator, overlooks the St. Johns River at the Palatka Barge Port on Thursday.
    Sam Sullivan, Putnam County’s grants, projects and legislative affairs coordinator, overlooks the St. Johns River at the Palatka Barge Port on Thursday.
  • The front page of the May 3, 1971, edition of the Palatka Daily News shows how Putnam County celebrated the opening of the Barge Port.
    The front page of the May 3, 1971, edition of the Palatka Daily News shows how Putnam County celebrated the opening of the Barge Port.
PALATKA – The sounds from industrial businesses clanged across the Palatka Barge Port’s desolate lot Thursday as Putnam County Project Coordinator Sam Sullivan unlocked the chains that shut the port…

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