1. HARRIS COMMISSARY
Jasper "Jap" Columbus Harris was born in La Crosse in 1880. He went into the turpentine business in the early 1900's. This structure was his commissary. Earlier Dr. W.S. Roberts ad a drugstore here. Later E.S. Gainey ran a grocery store on this site. Mr. Harris served three years in the Florida House of Representatives.
2. CHAPMAN STORE - SANTA FE BAPTIST CHURCH
Clarence Asa Chapman operated a general store here in the 1920's. His son Jay G. continued the store for many years. This building, dating from the 1940's, replaced the earlier building. It now serves as the Santa Fe Baptist Church.
3. ROBERTS STORE
Built by Will W. Roberts about 1925 as a general store and later run by his son-in-law, Tatum Norris. This is the site of the H.D. Parker store. It is now the residence and plant nursery of Gene and Mary Bass.
4. LA CROSSE BAPTIST CHURCH
The church was organized in 1883 and this heartpine, frame structure built on land donated by Henry C. Parker, pioneer landowner and merchant. The building continued to serve the congregation.
5. OLD GARAGE
A typical service garage and filling station of the early automobile era, this structure was built in the 1920's by R.H. Tipton. Later it was Aerated by Tatum Norris. It closed in the 1960's.
6. OLD METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
A Methodist Church was organized sometime prior to 1894. Again H.C. Parker donated "his large and commodious hall as a place of wor-ship." Services were discontinued in the 1930's and the building has been used as a residence intermittently since then.
7. BOYLES - MILLINGS HOUSE
Reported to be the oldest house in La Crosse, dating from about 1880, this is believed to have been the home of J.E. Futch whose cotton gin was immediately west of the structure. It was the residence of Benjamin H. Boyles, a Seaboard Railroad employee, in the 1920's and 30's. It is now the home of the Millings family.
8. LACROSSE POTATO GROWERS ASSOCIATION
After the boll weevil eliminated cotton,. potatoes became the major crop of the La Crosse area during the early decades of the 20th century. In the early 1920's the growers organized an association and built this brick office near the packing house and railroad. The depression of the 1930's put an end to profits from potatoes. One of the founders, Roy Cellon now owns the building.
This information has been researched and compiled by the Alachua County Historical Commission, and sponsered by the Alachua County Commission as part of the Alachua County Historical Tour Series (1986)