 In 1948, Live Oak and Suwannee County received their first real public hospital, completed under the Hill-Burton Act that provided Federal funding for health care facilities to rural areas.The Suwannee County Hospital served the citizens of the region until being replaced in the early 1990s.In 1952, national attention was drawn to Live Oak and Suwannee County when wealthy African-American Ruby McCollum shot and killed Dr. Clifford Leroy Adams, Jr., a prominent, recently elected State legislator in his office across from the Suwannee County Courthouse.