The Bronson-Mulholland House was constructed in 1854 by United States District Judge Isaac Bronson. After his death in 1855, his widow Sophronia Bronson remained at the house until the outbreak of the Civil War when she returned to her former home in New York.

During the war, the vacant house was occupied by Confederate soldiers and, during the Federal occupations of Palatka, used as quarters by Union troops. After the war, in 1866, a Freedman's School, supported by the New York branch of the Freedmen's Union Commission for teaching freed slaves, was opened in the house by Charlotte J. Henry, a friend of Sophronia Bronson.

Acquired by the City of Palatka in 1965, the House is operated by the Putnam County Historical Society as a museum of local history.

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Information Provided by the Florida Department of State.