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A garden for Newnansville, one-time Alachua County seat

Newnansville cemetery (Bailey LeFever/WUFT News)
Newnansville is commonly remembered for its cemetery. The Alachua County Community Remembrance Project hopes a new garden will give people a reason to learn more about this one-time county seat just northeast of the city of Alachua. (File photo/WUFT News)

A group of volunteers planted a remembrance garden in a area just north of Gainesville on Saturday.

They said they wanted to honor Newnansville, a long-forgotten Black community that thrived after the Civil War.

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Alannah is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.