The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The earliest documented colonizer to inhabit the area near McIntosh was in the early 1820s by Colonel John Houstoun McIntosh, who lived in a plantation until it was destroyed by Seminoles, along with them burning his sugar mill, during the Second Seminole War.
On February 2, 1849, a merchant from Baltimore named Nehemiah Brush, bought a large portion of land at a government auction in Micanopy, which included 4,000 acres of the Arrendondo Spanish land grant that today encompasses McIntosh. His son, Colonel Charles Brush, along with his brother-in-law Eugene Van Ness and sister Julia Brush (née Van Ness) developed present-day McIntosh, into building lots and ten-acre plots for citrus crops.
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Start McIntosh’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how McIntosh’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10McIntosh, decade by decade
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1 historic place in McIntosh
McIntosh has 1 listing on the National Register, and they protect 75 historic buildings, because McIntosh Historic District alone counts 75.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.