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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]
Location of Alachua County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alachua County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alachua County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Alachua County, Florida" ... This page was last edited on 24 June 2019, at 22:13 (UTC).
Map of Alachua County from 1883 showing the location of some historic communities. The historic communities of Alachua County were populated places and/or places with a post office that were established in the 19th century or early 20th century in what is now Alachua County, Florida, but which were abandoned, annexed into an incorporated municipality, or had a much reduced population by the ...
Map of the counties in north central Florida. North central Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida which comprises the north-central part of the state and encompasses the north Florida counties of Alachua, Marion, Putnam, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union. [1]
Turkey Creek Preserve is located at 6300 NW 93rd Ave, west of Northwest 59th Terrace and north of Northwest 93rd Avenue in Alachua County, Florida. [2] [3] It borders San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park. The preserve harbors nearly a mile of its namesake Turkey Creek's waters. [3]
Alachua (/ ə ˈ l æ tʃ u eɪ / ⓘ ə-LATCH-oo-ay) is the second-most populous city in Alachua County, Florida and the third-largest in North Central Florida. According to the 2020 census , the city's population was 10,574, up from 9,059 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ]
In 1839, the legislature returned Newnansville to Alachua County, and it again became the county seat. A United States General Land Office was established in 1842 to make it easier for settlers to buy public land or file claims , rather than having to go all the way to St. Augustine. [ 8 ]