Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Alachua, FL

Alachua was born in 1884 when the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway bypassed the old town of Newnansville by about a mile and a half, and Newnansville's residents and businesses moved to the new rail stop.

The town Alachua replaced, Newnansville, was Alachua County's first county seat and stood on the Bellamy Road, an early cross-Florida route; today little remains of it but a cemetery, a dirt road, and a historical marker.

Alachua was incorporated on April 12, 1905, at a time when it had just 526 residents.

Alachua calls itself 'The Good Life Community.'

With 10,574 residents at the 2020 census, Alachua is the second-most populous city in Alachua County and part of the Gainesville metropolitan area.

Alachua has about 4,550 households, and roughly three-quarters of its homes are owner-occupied.

Alachua has grown into one of Florida's largest bio and life sciences hubs, anchored by Progress Corporate Park, which houses one of the biggest bioscience business clusters in the state.

Santa Fe College's Perry Center for Emerging Technologies, a 30,000-square-foot laboratory facility that opened in 2009, sits in Alachua directly across the street from Progress Corporate Park.

Santa Fe High School opened in Alachua in 1956 as a consolidated school for the Alachua, High Springs, and Newberry area; its teams are the Raiders, and its Institute of Biotechnology magnet program feeds students directly into the Perry Center.

The Hal Brady Recreation Complex anchors one of the area's most extensive city recreation programs, which also includes four neighborhood parks and a splash park.