Orange Heights is an unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida, United States. [1] It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 301 and Florida State Road 26.
Orange Heights is an unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida, United States. [1] It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 301 and Florida State Road 26.
Orange Heights was founded on the Peninsula Railroad (now CSX Transportation's Wildwood Subdivision), which ran from Waldo to Ocala.
In 1891 Orange Heights had a population of more than 300 people. It had a school, a church, a hotel, three general stores, a cotton gin, a blacksmith, and a sawmill. [2]
In 2010–2011 an overpass was constructed carrying State Road 26 over U.S. 301 and the CSX tracks at Orange Heights. [3]
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The historic communities of Alachua County were populated places and/or places with a post office that were established in the 19th century or early 20th century in what is now Alachua County, Florida, but which were abandoned, annexed into an incorporated municipality, or had a much reduced population by the later part of the 20th century.
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