Talk:Newnansville, Florida

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This material was added to the main article. If someone could copyedit and source it, then it would make a good addition to the article. -Ebyabe 19:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

geography[edit]

The town of Newnansville was platted about 1841, with "blocks" 400 feet square, and lots 100x200 feet. Streets were 50 feet wide. Some surveyors will dispute the contents of his part, but early aerial photographs will prove its accuracy. The original Bellamy Road federal highway entered the town and passed through it S to N, before proceeding northwest across the natural bridge of the Santa Fe River and on to Tallahassee and Pensacola; the road originated in St. Augustine. In the 1830s, the State of Florida decided to pave a country highway, and surveyed the location. An error occurred, due to the surveyor's failure to walk in the tracks of the original surveys. The existing country road was "moved" on the map to a location passing through the middle of original blocks, and the town site moved on paper about 150 feet to the southeast. In the 1970s, land purchcasers relying on the erroneous surveys engaged in lawsuits about boundaries, with the result that town lots were physically moved on the ground from their original locations. Researchers interested in learning the town on-site need to go back to the original survey and to early aerial photographs, as the later maps are hugely in error as far as locating the original town. The author of this part walked the town site in the 1960s with an iron probe and located the original streets as shown on the original survey; they are 400 and 800 feet north of the paved road.

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Yesterday I replaced some cited material with a different version of events. The text I removed was

The Florida Railroad Company announced its plan to build a line from Ferdinanda to Cedar Key, to pass several miles south of Newnansville. Developers and speculators lobbied in the state legislature, gaining designation of the newly created railroad town of Gainesville as the county seat. The courthouse was moved to Gainesville as well in 1856.

I see nothing in the cited Yelton reference about lobbying the state legislature to transfer the county seat to Gainesville. Per Yelton, the legislature in 1852 authorized a vote to choose a new county seat. I don't know when the route for the railroad was revealed, but the Florida Railroad was chartered a year later, in 1853, with construction beginning at Fernandina in 1855, and reaching Gainesville in 1859. The vote to found a new town along the expected route of the railroad, to name that town Gainesville, and to make it the county seat, was taken at the (locally) famous picnic at Boulware Spring in 1854. The old courthouse building remained in Newnansville and a new courthouse was built at Gainesville. - Donald Albury 13:31, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]