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Micanopy is a town in Alachua County, about 10 miles south of Gainesville, and it is the oldest continuously inhabited community in the interior of Florida.

Micanopy was settled as an American trading post in 1821, the year Florida became a U.S. territory, on a site where Hernando de Soto had recorded a Native village in 1539 and naturalist William Bartram had visited a Seminole village in 1774.

The town is named for Chief Micanopy, the leading Seminole chief during the Second Seminole War, whose name translates to 'head chief' in the Creek language.

Micanopy was first incorporated in 1837 in the Florida Territory and was reincorporated as a town in the State of Florida on September 15, 1858.

Micanopy had a population of 648 at the 2020 census, up from 600 in 2010 - barely changed from the more than 600 people who lived there back in 1880.

The Micanopy Historic District, covering essentially the whole downtown along Cholokka Boulevard, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with 39 buildings on the register and many storefronts dating to the 1800s.

Micanopy is nicknamed 'The Town That Time Forgot' for its moss-draped live oaks, antique shops and preserved 19th-century streetscape.

Micanopy served as the main filming location for the 1991 film 'Doc Hollywood,' which used the town as its fictional small-town setting.

Just north of Micanopy lies Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, a vast savanna famous for its wild-roaming bison herd.

The Micanopy Historical Society Museum, housed in the 1890s Thrasher Warehouse, displays Native American artifacts, Second Seminole War exhibits and a historic general store cashier's cage.