Alachua Florida Foreclosures
- City of Alachua
- City of Archer
- City of Gainesville
- City of Hawthorne
- City of High Springs
- Town of LaCrosse
- Town of Micanopy
- City of Newberry
- City of Waldo
Unincorporated
Facts about Florida
In 1513, Ponce de León, seeking the mythical “Fountain of Youth,” discovered and named Florida, claiming it for Spain. Later, Florida would be held at different times by Spain and England until Spain finally sold it to the United States in 1819. (Incidentally, France established a colony named Fort Caroline in 1564 in the state that was to become Florida.)
Alachua County was created in 1824. It was named for a word meaning sinkhole in either the Muskogee or Timucua Indian language. The original county seat was Newnansville located near the current site of the city of Alachua. In 1853, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cear Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville. Gainesville became the county seat the following year.
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