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History · McIntosh

McIntosh’s post office opened in 1887, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 75 buildings. Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1920.

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How McIntosh began

When was McIntosh founded?

1887

The McIntosh post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1913.

First census: 440 in 19202020 census: 463139 years
Founding year: the first McIntosh post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1913.The full story ↓

What stands out about McIntosh’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of McIntosh are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.A historic districtThe McIntosh Historic District takes in 75 historic buildings.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how McIntosh’s history is told.

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On the National Register

1 listing protects 75 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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McIntosh Historic District
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Architectural styles listings

Frame Vernacular1
Gothic Revival1
Queen Anne1
Bungalow1
McIntosh Historic DistrictFrame Vernacular

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How McIntosh came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of McIntosh.

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The earliest documented colonizer to inhabit the area near McIntosh was in the early 1820s by Colonel John Houstoun McIntosh, who lived in a plantation until it was destroyed by Seminoles, along with them burning his sugar mill, during the Second Seminole War.

On February 2, 1849, a merchant from Baltimore named Nehemiah Brush, bought a large portion of land at a government auction in Micanopy, which included 4,000 acres of the Arrendondo Spanish land grant that today encompasses McIntosh. His son, Colonel Charles Brush, along with his brother-in-law Eugene Van Ness and sister Julia Brush (née Van Ness) developed present-day McIntosh, into building lots and ten-acre plots for citrus crops.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

McIntosh, decade by decade

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On the map

McIntosh on the map, 1893 to 1968

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of McIntosh. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

McIntosh on the 1893 USGS mapMcIntosh on the 1968 USGS map1893Citra sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of McIntosh.

People over time

McIntosh, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 463

Between 247 and 463 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on McIntosh’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about McIntosh’s history

What year was McIntosh founded?

The McIntosh post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1913.

What is on the National Register in McIntosh?

One place: the McIntosh Historic District (listed 1983).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.