Spanish Ranch

Named for two Mexicans who began a horse ranch here in 1850.

Marker is on Spanish Ranch Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Spanish Cattle Ranching

Present-day Gainesville was the center of a large Spanish cattle ranching industry, founded on the labor of native Timuqua Indians, during the 1600s. LaChua, largest of the ranches, was a Spanish corruption of an Indian word, and in turn was ...