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Monticello (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ s ɛ l oʊ / ⓘ MON-tiss-EL-oh) is the only city and the county seat of Jefferson County, Florida, United States. The city is named after Monticello, the estate of the county's namesake, Thomas Jefferson, on which the Jefferson County Courthouse was modeled. [5] The population was 2,589 at the 2020 census.
Jefferson County Middle / High School (JCMHS) is a public school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Florida, with a Monticello postal address. [4] A part of Jefferson County Schools, it serves grades 6 - 12. The school's mascot is a tiger and the school colors are orange and blue. [5]
Jefferson County is the only Florida school district to ever be controlled by a charter network. [9] From 2017 to 2022, the schools were known as Jefferson Somerset K-12 School, [11] also known as Somerset Academy Jefferson County [12]
A Florida newspaper reports that video of a mentally ill man's violent death in a county jail contradicts the sheriff office's narrative of what happened. But the public may never get to see what ...
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Jefferson County is a county located in the Big Bend region in the northern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,510. [1] Its county seat is Monticello. [2] Jefferson County is part of the Tallahassee, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area but is the 3rd most rural county in Florida. [3]
The Jefferson County Courthouse is an historic Classical Revival style courthouse building located in Monticello, Florida.Built in 1909, it was designed by Georgia-born architect Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas.
The purchase of the Perkins Block was consummated on October 17, 1973. On that date, the Monticello Opera House, Inc. purchased the building with money raised through fund-raising efforts, a grant from the State of Florida and a private donation from Mrs. Dorothy Simpson, who held one-half interest in the building. [10]