Editing Macclenny, Florida (section)

==History==

[[Image:Mcclenny1900s.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fifth Street looking north in Macclenny, ''circa'' 1908.]]
Macclenny was first called '''Darbyville''' because most of the land of this area was owned by the Darby family. Carr Bowers McClenny married into the Darby family, and then bought most of this land in the late 19th century, intending to harvest it for timber.<ref name=MacHistory>{{cite web|title=McClenny Family Website|url=http://www.mcclenny.org/macclenfl.htm|website=mcclenny.org|access-date=July 16, 2014}}</ref>

Darbyville became known as McClenny. McClenny developed many businesses there related to lumber: harvesting the wood, sawmills to process it, turpentine, and land. The town name McClenny was changed to the current name of The City of Macclenny because the post office department had a rule against using capital letters in the middle of a name. The first post office in Macclenny was established in 1890.<ref name=MacHistory/>

There were settlers in Macclenny as early as 1829, but it was not until after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] that more people began to settle there. In 1888, most of the town residents were killed in a [[yellow fever]] epidemic. The population was 334 in 1890, and the town gradually recovered.<ref name=MacHistory/>