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Palmetto is a city in Manatee County, Florida, occupying a natural peninsula on the north bank of the mile-wide Manatee River, opposite Bradenton, where the river meets Terra Ceia Bay.

Palmetto traces its beginning to the arrival of Samuel Sparks Lamb in 1868; known as the 'Father of Palmetto,' Lamb surveyed and platted the town and named it after his home state of South Carolina, the 'Palmetto State.'

A post office called Palmetto has been in operation since 1868.

Palmetto was chartered as a city in 1897, when Florida's governor signed its charter.

Lamb donated land for Palmetto's churches, its cemetery, its Carnegie library, the Woman's Club and Lamb Park, which he gave the town as a Christmas gift in 1909.

The railroad reached Palmetto in 1895, shifting the town's commercial center from its river wharf to the depot, and Palmetto became one of the Manatee River's busiest shipping points for vegetables and citrus.

Palmetto's historic district preserves more than 200 historic buildings, and Palmetto Historical Park keeps structures dating back to 1880 open to the public, alongside the Manatee County Agricultural Museum.

The 365-acre Emerson Point Preserve at the tip of Snead Island in western Palmetto protects prehistoric sites, including Florida's largest Native American temple mound.

Nearby Port Manatee is billed as the closest United States deepwater seaport to the Panama Canal.

Palmetto had 13,323 residents at the 2020 census, living in about 5,274 households, with roughly 68.8% of homes owner-occupied and a median household income of about $62,621.