A rural community located at the junction of SR26 and SR21, midway between Palatka on the east, and Gainesville on the west.
Population is composed primarily of retired persons.
Has one elementary school, several small businesses and no major manufacturing plants. Population indeterminate, but estimated to be between 6 and 8 thousand people. This is the cold impersonal way an atlas might describe Melrose, but for those who live here, these words can not begin to express the true feeling of what Melrose means. To try and build a description, one must spend months talking to residents, attending school functions, going to church and church functions, buying supplies at local stores, reading the bulletin board at the post office, attending Library Association meetings and Business Association luncheons, going to the Homemaker's Club and Woman's Club, watching the volunteer firefighters practice on Monday night and going to Little League games or Boy Scout meetings. The school has a staff that really cares about the children and the families of those children.