Flora was a community just northeast of the city of Gainesville, in

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, in the late 19th century. A former colonel in the Union Army, Louis A. Barnes, who had served as sheriff and tax collector for the county, and registrar for the

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, laid out a subdivision between the Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad and the

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north of the Gainesville city limits. In 1883, lots were being sold for fruit and vegetable farming. A post office was opened in 1895 and closed in 1896. The community was annexed into the city of Gainesville, beginning in 1905.

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