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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 districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Gainesville was founded to place the Alachua County seat on the proposed route of the Florida Railroad Company's line stretching from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach. County residents decided to move the county seat from Newnansville (and chose the name Gainesville) in 1853, as the proposed railroad would bypass Newnansville. A site on Black Oak ...
Hope was a community in eastern Alachua County, between Hawthorne and Melrose. A post office was established in 1894 and closed in 1907. [4] [25], Hummock Ridge, later known as Hammock Ridge, was a community in central Alachua County on the Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad (later part of the Florida Central and Western Railroad). It was ...
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Newnansville, Florida was one of the first American settlements in the interior of Florida. It became the second county seat of Alachua County in 1828, and one of the central locations for activity during the Second Seminole War, during which time it was one of the largest cities in the State. In the 1850s, the Florida Railroad bypassed ...
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Fort Mitchell, Florida. Fort Michell, located in today's Alachua County, was the capital of the short-lived Republic of East Florida during the Patriot War of 1814 . Only one building was built, a 25-foot [7 meters]-square, two-story blockhouse. It was located about one mile [1.6 km] from the city limits of modern Micanopy, Florida.
Alachua County ( / əˈlætʃuə / ⓘ ə-LATCH-oo-ə) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. [ 1] The county seat is Gainesville, [ 2] the home of the University of Florida since 1906, when the campus opened with 106 students.