Newnansville Methodist Church Site

On this site

the Newnansville

Methodist Church

was founded in 1822

Presented by

Alachua

Methodist Church

1972

Marker can be reached from Florida Route 235, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...