Spring Grove, Florida was a

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Alachua County, Florida Alachua County ( ) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida. History Prehistory and ear ...

during the territorial period in Florida, serving for three years as the

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of the county. It was about four miles west of Hogtown, probably in the San Felasco Hammock, west or northwest of present-day Gainesville. Four

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s in the

San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park in Alachua County, Florida. It is located northwest of Gainesville, Florida on CR 232 (Millhopper Road), just south of the town of Alachua. Fauna Among the wildlife of the park ar ...

may have been part of Spring Grove. A post office was established in Spring Grove in 1829. In 1835, a unit of

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mounted riflemen called the Spring Grove Guards was organized in Alachua County under authority of the

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. Most of the 60 or so members were from Spring Grove and Hogtown. The unit ceased operations in less than a year, after the

Second Seminole War The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between the United States and groups of people collectively known as Seminoles, consisting of Muscogee, Creek and Black Seminoles as well as oth ...

began. The territorial council designated Spring Grove as the county seat of Alachua County in February 1836. Three years later, in February 1839, the territorial council moved the county seat to Newnansville. The post office closed sometime in 1848.

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