Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites by Rodney Carlisle

Author:Rodney Carlisle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pineapple Press
Published: 2016-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

A company store for turpentine workers provided post-office service, a wide variety of goods, and usually a running bill that consumed all the workers’ earnings.

William H. Traxler, son of settlers from South Carolina, built the commissary store. In the 1880s he acquired property in Alachua County on the Bellamy Road, opened a general store, and began farming. Prospering, he increased his holdings and enlarged the commissary to the scale shown here. He also served as postmaster, with the post office in the commissary from 1891 to 1906. At one time the town of Traxler had a one-room school, several tenant farm homes, a cotton gin and gristmill, and a church.

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