Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Monticello, FL

Monticello is the county seat of Jefferson County and the only incorporated city in the county.

Monticello was settled in 1827 and named after Thomas Jefferson's famous Virginia estate, just as Jefferson County itself was named for Jefferson.

Monticello was laid out in 1828 around a central courthouse square where its Jefferson and Washington streets cross, and the town was incorporated in 1859.

The domed Jefferson County Courthouse in Monticello, built in 1909 and dedicated in 1910, was deliberately modeled on Jefferson's Monticello by architect Edward Columbus Hosford.

Monticello's historic district covers 27 blocks with 42 nineteenth-century buildings and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The Perkins Opera House, opened in 1890 inside a converted mercantile building, still hosts musical performances in downtown Monticello.

Monticello holds a scorching state record - the 109 degrees Fahrenheit recorded there on June 29, 1931, is the highest temperature ever measured in Florida.

Jefferson County was once America's watermelon-seed capital, producing over 80% of the watermelon seed sold in the nation, and Monticello celebrates the crop with a Watermelon Festival every June, a tradition dating to 1949.

Monticello had just 2,589 residents in the 2020 census, making it one of Florida's smallest county seats.

Monticello has roughly 1,290 households, about two-thirds of its homes are owner-occupied, and its median household income is about $46,300.