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Newnansville Town Site
At the end of 1824, Alachua County was organized as a poli...
Newnansville
Two miles to the north, Newnansville was the seat of Alach...
Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on J...
Josiah T. Walls
Born in 1842 to slave parents in Winchester, Va., little i...
Hogtown Settlement - Fort Hogtown
Near this site was located Hogtown, one of the earliest se...
Historic Haile Homestead At Kanapaha
One of the oldest houses in Alachua County, the Historic H...
High Springs, Florida
The northwest region of Alachua County was probably first ...
Hawthorne, Florida
In 1774, noted botanist William Bartram travelled across w...
Fort Clarke
Near this site was located Fort Clarke, originally a U.S. ...
First Gainesville Skirmish - Battle of Gainesville
The first Civil War gunfire in Gainesville's streets came ...
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Newnansville Town Site
At the end of 1824, Alachua County was organized as a political unit of the new Territory of Florida. The Seminole inhabitants of the Alachua region had recently been ordered to a reservation, and land was available there for white ...
Newnansville
Two miles to the north, Newnansville was the seat of Alachua County and center of trade and plantation life in the antebellum period. Its chief products were corn, cotton, and, after the War Between the States, citrus. In 1856 the ...
Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on July 16, 1867, with the Reverend Isaac Davis serving as the first pastor. The Board of Trustees of the oldest black congregation in Gainesville purchased the lot on which the present church ...
Josiah T. Walls
Born in 1842 to slave parents in Winchester, Va., little is known of Josiah T. Walls' early life. After a short term of Confederate service, he enlisted in the Third Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops in 1863. Transferred to Picolata on ...
Hogtown Settlement - Fort Hogtown
Near this site was located Hogtown, one of the earliest settlements in Alachua County. It was originally an Indian village which in 1824 had fourteen inhabitants. Hogtown settlement is also mentioned in documents of the early nineteenth century which discuss ...
Historic Haile Homestead At Kanapaha
One of the oldest houses in Alachua County, the Historic Haile Homestead was the home of Thomas Evans Haile, his wife Esther Serena Chesnut Haile, and 14 of their children. The Hailes came here from Camden, South Carolina in 1854 ...
High Springs, Florida
The northwest region of Alachua County was probably first settled on a permanent basis by English speaking people during the late 1830s. One of the earliest settlements in the vicinity was Crockett Springs, located about three miles east of present ...
Hawthorne, Florida
In 1774, noted botanist William Bartram travelled across what is now the southeastern corner of Alachua County following an old Indian and trading trail. In Florida's territorial period, English-speaking settlers used the same route as a frontier road. By 1840, ...
Fort Clarke
Near this site was located Fort Clarke, originally a U.S. Army post during the Seminole War, and afterwards a settlement. The name is preserved in nearby Fort Clarke Church. At this site crossed the early settlement and military road connecting ...
First Gainesville Skirmish - Battle of Gainesville
The first Civil War gunfire in Gainesville's streets came on February 15, 1864, when a raiding party of 50 men from the 40th Massachusetts Cavalry entered the City to attempt the capture of two trains. The raid was unproductive, for ...
