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Alachua County was the site of 21 documented lynchings between 1891 and 1926. [13] The first three documented lynchings, in Gainesville in 1891, involved two Black men and a White man, who were associated with the notorious Harmon Murray. [14] Ten lynchings took place in Newberry, six of them in a mass lynching there in 1916. [13]
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Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr., left, and Col. Chad Scott pose for a photo that was used to announce Scott's promotion on the Alachua County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page on Aug. 11, 2022.
All of the other counties were created later from these two original counties. Florida became the 27th U.S. state in 1845, and its last county was created in 1925 with the formation of Gilchrist County from a segment of Alachua County. [1] Florida's counties are subdivisions of the state government.
High Springs is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in Alachua County and seventh-largest in North Central Florida. The population was 6,215 at the 2020 census, up from 5,350 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sheila Payne, with the Alachua County Labor Coalition, talks about the need for better housing options as a group of protesters gathered outside the Collier Companies office on Main Street to ...
In Alachua County, Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation reported 347 violations during 59 recent restaurant inspections. Inspectors labeled 82 violations as a high priority ...