Editing Trenton, Florida (section)

===Post-Reconstruction to present===
When the area was being settled in 1883, it was very briefly called "''Joppa''" before being named "''Trenton''" by a former [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Confederate States Army|soldier]] who resided in the community but was originally from [[Trenton, Tennessee]] (which in turn took their city's name from [[Trenton, New Jersey]], after [[William Trent (Trenton)|William Trent]]).<ref name=TreSet/> The municipality was officially incorporated as the '''City of Trenton''' in 1911.<ref name=TreInc/>

Western [[Alachua County]] was developed largely for farms and timber, which sometimes attracted itinerant workers. Trenton developed as a trading and market town for this area, with some professionals who worked here in the early 20th century.

On July 21, 1915, Dr. H.M. Owens was [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]] by a mob in Trenton after being told to leave town. He was at the house of Mrs. McGuire, which the mob set on fire after the doctor exchanged fire with the crowd. The doctor was shot to death as he fled the burning house. Dr. Owens's local Masonic Lodge was disbanded in the ensuing scandal and only reopened in the 1950s.<ref name="LynchingsDan">{{cite news|last1=Dan|first1=Nicole|title=At Least 21 Lynched In Alachua County, Historical Commission Confirms|url=https://www.wuft.org/news/2017/09/27/at-least-21-lynched-in-alachua-county-historical-commission-confirms/|publisher=WUFT-TV |access-date=9 January 2018|date=27 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="TrentonMob">{{cite news|title= Small Florida Town Scene Big Doings Recently |url=http://genealogytrails.com/fla/gilchrist/news_crime.html|publisher=Genealogy Trails History Group: Pensacola Journal |access-date=10 April 2018|date=23 July 1915}}</ref>

At the time, the city of Trenton was still located in Alachua County, which had the sixth highest number of [[lynching]]s of counties in Florida.<ref>[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf ''Lynching in America''/ Supplement: Lynchings by County, 3rd Edition, 2015, p.2]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Trenton is in a rural area, and is the hometown of country music singer [[Easton Corbin]] and MLB player, Wyatt Langford of the Texas Rangers.