Palatka is an old Florida logging town on the St. Johns river — and near enough Jacksonville for big city problems to seep into the local community. Indeed, the thinly-inhabited wooded rural acreage around Palatka is well-suited to marijuana grow operations and small meth labs.
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“Palatka is an old Florida logging town on the St. Johns river — and near enough Jacksonville for big city problems to seep into the local community. Indeed, the thinly-inhabited wooded rural acreage around Palatka is well-suited to marijuana grow operations and small meth labs.”
Not even close. Never a logging town, but there was an old cypress mill for processing of lumber, and Georgia Pacific has a pulp, paper, and plywood operation there that employs many people; the river has long been used for transportation of people and goods. And suitable for MJ and Meth? It’s heavily swampy along the river and heavily farmed nearby, and the locals don’t take kindly to strangers doing strange things in strange places.