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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy

Chapter Four: 1800 - 1849

Chapter Four: 1800 – 1849

By 1820, when the United States took control of Florida from
the Spanish, the Seminoles had left their settlement of Alligator and
gone elsewhere. In the 1830 census, officials noted that the site had
27 white households as well as mail service, govenmental offices in a
private home, and access to the east coast by road. In 1832 Columbia
County was established as Florida’s 16th county. Its name came from
the poetical name of (Christopher) Columbus. Previously, Columbia
County had been part of Duval County and Alachua County.

According to A Century in the Sun, Lake City, Florida,
1859 - 1959, the earliest reference to an organized Christian religion

in the area was a letter from a Georgia Methodist preacher: “I wrote
to Brother Roberts, who is living in Alligator Settlement, that if spared,
I would hold a two-day meeting in his settlement on the 15th and 16th
of August 1829.” (More about the major religions in each chapter.)
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Two local people from the 1830s were Jacob and Jane Dean
Brown Goodbread, who were married in 1832.

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