The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.

It was Florida's 28th county created from parts of St. Johns, Alachua, Orange, Duval, and Marion counties.

Marion County was created in 1844 from portions of Alachua, Mosquito ( Orange ), and Hillsborough counties.

Their first town was situated on or near the old Alachua plain, now called Payne's Prairie in homage to " King " Payne, chief of the Alachua settlements upon his death in 1812.

Alachua County proper was created in 1824.

The original county seat was Newnansville located near the current site of the city of Alachua.

It was created from portions of Alachua, Hillsborough and Orange Counties and included all of present day Citrus and Pasco Counties.

Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834 from Alachua and Monroe counties.

Alachua got a post office in 1887 and was incorporated as a city on 12 April 1905, at which time it had a population of 526 people.

however, the plan has never been implemented and in 2010 " A Needs Assessment of Unsheltered Homeless Individuals In Gainesville, Florida " was presented to a joint meeting of Gainesville and Alachua County Commissions.

The northwest region of Alachua County was probably first settled on a permanent basis by English speaking people during the late 1830 ` s.

Newberry developed as a mining town after phosphate was discovered in the western part of Alachua County in 1889 ; and, the town was located along the route of the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railway, that in 1893 was extended southward from High Springs.

" It was first permanently settled in 1909 by William G. King, a real estate manager from Alachua County who had been given the responsibility " to plan, locate and develop a town.

Eventually, a low-level employee of the Alachua County, Florida Medical Examiners office was arrested and charged with taking and selling the photographs.

Upon conclusion of the construction by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the facility was known as the Alachua Army Airfield and was used by the Army Air Corps and the Army Air Forces.

By the end of August, Fort Defiance, on the edge of the Alachua Prairie, was also abandoned.

In the same month, a group of four soldiers traveling between forts in Alachua County was attacked, with one killed and two others never seen again.

In 1922 an assembly was held in Alachua, Florida, a charter was drafted, and the name Church of God By Faith, Inc. officially adopted.

A General Assembly was held in Alachua, Florida in 1922 where the leading elders drafted a charter, which is now known as the " Church of God By Faith, Inc ."

The meaning of Alachua is suggested by a passage in the journal of Lieutenant Diego Peña, who on his expedition to Apalachee and Apalachicola in 1716, traversed the region, and of the area between the Ichetucknee and Suwannee Rivers in southern Suwannee County remarks:

The paper serves all of the communities within Alachua County, but it focuses on smaller municipalities outside of Gainesville.

" which organizes protests against, and publishes data about, the meal limit, the gathering of 13, 060 signatures by an online petition to repeal meal limit, protesters picketing the Mayor's State of the City Address and picketing developers who lobby City Hall to keep a meal limit on soup kitchens, and groups including the Democratic Party of Alachua County urging the lifting of the meal limit.

Newberry is a city located on the southwest side of Alachua County, Florida, United States.

California State University researchers published mathematical models of feral cats populations suggesting that 71 – 94 % of a population needs to be sterilized for the population to decline, based on case studies of San Diego and Alachua Counties.

* Less Than Jake live at the Alachua Music Harvest on January 15, 1995

to build, construct, maintain, manage and operate one of more lines of railway, as follows: Beginning at or near the town of Starke, in the county of Bradford, Florida, and extendin from thence through the counties of Bradford and Alachua to a point on or near the Suwannee River between Clay Landing and Fort White, and a branch or branches through the counties of Levy, Columbia, Lafayette and Taylor, and with a branch or branches through the counties of Bradford, Clay and Duval, to a point on the St. Johns river.

* to construct, equip and maintain and operate a canal from Wauberg Lake, in Alachua county, to and through Saw-grass Pond, Chacala, Payne's Prairie or Alachua Lake, and Sweet-water Branch, to or near the city of Gainesville ; also a branch through Prairie Creek to Newnan's Lake on the north ; also a branch through Bevan's Arm to or near a point of the Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company's Railroad.

He graduated from Santa Fe High School in Alachua, Florida in 1998, and went on to attend Stetson University.

During this period, steamboats were a frequent sight on what was called Alachua Lake.

The lake is located entirely in Alachua County, but is bounded on the east side by Bradford County.

The Alachua County boundary extends to the ordinary high water line ( normally the shoreline ), which is above mean sea level.

Rolling eventually was brought to trial by Alachua County State Attorney Len Register nearly four years after the murders.

Another group of Hitchiti speakers, led by Cowkeeper, settled in what is now Alachua County, an area where the Spanish had maintained cattle ranches in the 17th century.

He had a large operation at Fairbanks, near Gainesville, Florida in Alachua county.

Five of the most important Seminole chiefs, including Micanopy of the Alachua Seminoles, had not agreed to the move.

While a serious scientific and nature writer, he also had a remarkable sense of humor, which led him to publish the parody of scientific taxonomic keys-his A Subjective Key to the Fishes of Alachua County, Florida, affectionately known as the " Carr Key ".

Buchholz, in honor of a distinquished Alachua County educator who had died a few years earlier, while the school in the eastern suburbs was simply named Eastside High School ( Gainesville, Florida ).

Orange Lake is in the far northern part of Marion County, near the border with Alachua County.

James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a state senator from Alachua County, built a school, the Gainesville Academy, around the same time.

Alachua County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

Alachua County is the home of the University of Florida and is also known for its diverse culture, local music, and artisans.

The Alachua area appears to have been the first area occupied by the immigrant Oconees, the original Seminoles, about 1740.

This inference is not inconsistent with the general opinion of residents of the county, that the name Alachua means sinkhole.

Alachua County is part of the Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The entire county of Alachua is served by the Alachua County School District, which has some 47 different institutions in the county.

Alachua county is also home to the University of Florida and Santa Fe College.

Like many other counties containing large state universities, Alachua County regularly supports the Democratic Party.

Alachua and Nassau counties were created out of parts of Duval County in 1824.

The adult citizens of Leon County enjoy the highest level of education in the state of Florida followed by Alachua County with a total of 67. 8 %.