Category: History

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  This week, we near the end of our discussion of how the current location of the Suwannee County Courthouse came to be. Compared to how Live Oak became the…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  This week, we will continue our multi-part discussion of how the current location of the Suwannee County Courthouse came to be. We have seen politics, shady dealings, blackmail and…

Eric Musgrove Contributor This week, we will continue our discussion of the events that led to the location of the Suwannee County Courthouse. In the Wednesday, July 31, edition of the Riverbend…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  This week, we will continue our discussion of Live Oak’s selection as the county seat and the events that led to today’s location of the Suwannee County Courthouse. We…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  In the Wednesday, July 17, edition of the Riverbend News, we began a multi-part series on how Live Oak became the county seat and how the present location of…

Hailey Heseltine  reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com  As of Tuesday, July 2, it has been 60 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. This act was the result of a struggle…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  There are events in the history of Suwannee County that remind me of the passage from Ecclesiastes 1:9, in which the wise King Solomon declares, “What has been is…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  Pictured with this article is a photograph taken in the 1900s of the Branford Railroad Depot, now the Branford Shrine Club, behind the steamboat: City of Hawkinsville. It is…

Eric Musgrove  Contributor  This week, we’ll finish our multi-article study on the Wellborn community, one of the oldest existing communities in Suwannee County. During the heyday period of Wellborn during the late…

Metro Contributor The month of June has been home to many historical events over the years. Here’s a look at some that helped to shape the world in June 1924. • Austrian…

Eric Musgrove Contributor In the Wednesday, June 12, edition of the Riverbend News, we began a study of the history of Wellborn, one of Suwannee County’s earliest communities. We will continue that…

Eric Musgrove Contributor Wellborn is one of the oldest communities in Suwannee County; the area around it was settled by Americans before practically any other location in the County. Wellborn’s age, coupled…

Eric Musgrove Contributor In the article published in the Wednesday, May 22, edition of the Riverbend News, I began writing about a shootout that happened in 1890 Branford. Today, I finish the…

Eric Musgrove Contributor Several years ago, my friend Shirley Clark from Branford stopped by my office. Knowing of my love of history, she brought a booklet published decades ago by a Lafayette…

Kenzie James reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was established at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., as a grave and memorial for unidentified American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in…

Hailey Heseltine  reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com  This Monday, May 20, marks the 159th Emancipation Day in Florida.  National Emancipation Day is celebrated on April 16 because it marks the anniversary of when Abraham Lincoln signed…