Editing Chiefland, Florida (section)

==History==
A village of the [[Timucua]] people was once located south of the present city and at [[Manatee Springs]]. The area's economy is traditionally based on agriculture, primarily farming ([[peanut]]s, [[watermelon]]s, [[hay]]); ranching (cattle, hogs); dairy (milk); timber ([[pulpwood]], [[lumber]], [[turpentine]]) and [[aquaculture]] (fishing, oystering, crabbing).

After [[Spanish Florida]] became the [[Florida Territory|Florida Territory of the United States]], it was [[plat]]ted in 1843, and when Florida officially became a [[U.S. state]] in 1845, the community turned into a permanent settlement by non-indigenous people and called "'''''Charlie Emathla’s Town'''''".<ref name=CLSet/> In 1860, it was renamed "'''''Hardeetown'''''", after Isaac P. Hardee, who was a [[Slavery|slaver]] that owned a [[Plantation complexes in the Southern United States|large plantation]] that extended for miles and the community was eventually built on the land.<ref name=CLSet/> The '''City of Chiefland''' was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1913.<ref name=CLInc/>

In July 1927, a Black man named [[Lynching of Albert Williams|Albert Williams]] was shot and then [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]] by a mob. He had allegedly assaulted a white turpentine operator over a debt he owed the white man, and "was shot to death by a mob".<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |title=A Study of Mob Action in the South |first=John R. |last=Steelman | authorlink=John R. Steelman |publisher=[[University of North Carolina]] |year=1928 |page=268 |url=https://archive.org/stream/studyofmobaction00stee/studyofmobaction00stee_djvu.txt}}</ref>