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By the light of the fireplace our forefathers received their early schooling.   An Early Immigrant - William Sparkman One of these early settlers was William Sparkman who was known to be well established in Alachua County before 1830 when the first census showed them to be located there. By 1830 the population of Alachua County was 2,204 settlers. This area was actually above the warm "orange belt". The temperature, some miles east of Waldo on the St. Seven years later on February 8, 1835, there was a cold spell so severe that snow fell as the temperature dipped to 11 degrees F. Then again in 1852 snow fell, but on the whole, the weather in north Florida was known, in the early years of settlement, to be delightfully mild. In 1823 Alachua County was formed through division of Duval into three parts, the two subdivisions being Nassau and Alachua counties. At that time, Alachua County included Baker, Bradford, part of Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy and parts of Putnam, allegra d kids Suwannee and Union counties. White, who became Delegate from Florida to the House of Representatives, and who supported a bill to grant settlers the right of preemptor on the purchase of public land, the pioneer would have been forced to buy the very improvements he himself had made. With the passage of the act covering certain lands in Florida allegra young north carolina in 1826, the settlers were permitted to acquire the land at $1. Normally, this land would have been offered for sale at a public auction to the highest bidder. By 1830 the population of Alachua County had grown to 2,204. Like other plantation owners of allegra d kids those years they grew the crops allegra d kids needed most and that brought in the most money at the market. Corn, cotton brought an excellent price and allegra d kids sugar cane flourished. The pine woods and fertile prairies were excellent grazing lands for cattle and horses. Though William Sparkman died between allegra d kids June 15, 1845 and May 6, 1846. He did see the difference Bellamy Road meant to the interior. One of the allegra d kids most important founders of the county, he left allegra d kids his legacy in good hands.

The allegra d kids unspoiled beauty of the great expanse of flat allegra d kids country in Alachua County lay before the early settler as the covered wagons rumbled and bounced over the allegra d kids trails and roads as he sought his homesite. In the latter part of the 1820's he would have found the Bellamy Road, allegra d kids for all its imperfections was much better than some of the rough, allegra d kids crude trails that led to the interior. The woods were full of stately pines and giant oaks. Tall, curving palms grew out of thickly allegra edwards clustered allegra d kids scrub oak. There were many food-fish in the shallow waters at the edge of the lake. The seven flowing wells of southwest Waldo provided a means of watering their crops even during a drought by irrigation. These were the days allegra d kids when the Circuit Rider Preacher and friendly travelers when ushered into the homes were assured of a welcome. The Southerner has never -outgrown his liking for the soda biscuits, spread with melting butter and jam or jelly. The invention of the cotton gin and subsequent growing of cotton in tie south, transformed Florida and Alachua County. Cotton growers from the Carolina, hoping to get rich moved into north Florida. they bought up large acreage along trails and roads. As time passed the plantation owner gained wealth and a position in society. Though he may have started out unable to read and write, through the years the planter learned, for by 1840 there were allegra d kids only seven in the county who could not. Some of the Families that lived in and around Waldo were:   Washington Sparkman  Jacob Summerall  David B. Williamson  Ann Monroe  Michael Savory  Christopher C. Minchin Douglas O'Neil  William Bevin  William Wilkerson, Jr.   James Edwards  Exekiel Weeks  Charles M. Minn William Williamson  William Sparkman  Cornelius H. Conway  Reuben Charles  Alrich Wiley  Joshus Loper Henry D.