October 7
In 1862, Federal gunboats moved upriver to Welaka. Above Lake George, Federal troops captured the Steamer Governor Milton.
In 1886, the “white public school, which opened on Monday last in the old barn of a school building, has about twenty-five pupils in attendance. This school should be the largest and most prosperous in the county, and with a proper school building and a liberal salary for teachers, it could be made so.”…