Editing Suwannee County, Florida (section)

==History==
Suwannee County was created in 1858,<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the Florida Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA34|year=1908|publisher=Florida Historical Society|page=34}}</ref> as railways were constructed through the area connecting it to [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]], and points north. It was named after the [[Suwannee River]], which forms the county's northern, western, and much of its southern border. The word "Suwannee" may either be a corruption of the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''San Juan'' ("Saint John") or from the [[Cherokee]] ''sawani'' ("echo river").

During the [[American Civil War]], Company K of the [[3rd Florida Infantry Regiment]] was composed almost entirely of men from Suwannee County. In 1884, Florida's volunteer militia was reorganized and the Suwanee Rifles were established. The Rifles were among the twelve companies from Florida that were activated for service during the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hawk |first1=Robert |title=Florida's Army : Militia, State Troops, National Guard, 1565-1985 |date=1986 |publisher=Pineapple Press |location=Englewood, Fla. |isbn=9780910923347 |page=xxiii |edition=1st}}</ref>

The rural areas supported numerous lumber and turpentine camps. In the 1930s, anthropologist [[Zora Neale Hurston]] did research in North Florida timber camps.