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When the US Government acquired Florida in 1821, scouts were sent to survey the peninsula. They found that there was a vast population of Seminole and Timucuan Indians. The government wanted to populate the Florida peninsula with white settlements, but the Seminole Indians were a major obstacle. In 1825, the government created an agency to oversee the Seminoles, in what would become Marion County.
Due to the animosity caused by relocating the Seminoles out of north Florida, conflicts increased between the whites and Seminoles. A military outpost was established by the U.S. Army to protect the northern boundary of the Indian reservation created by the U.S. Two companies of the U.S. Fourth Infantry under Capt. James M. Glassell explored the area, and camped on a site near present-day Fort King Street and Northeast 36th Avenue. The site was called Cantonment King, or Camp King, in honor of the detachment's former commander, Col. William King. Fort King was a central location during the Second Seminole War.
Pioneers in Marion County came to the area for free land offered under the Armed Occupation Act during the 1840s. Six military roads converged on Fort King, making it an obvious meeting place. Soon a store, a post office, the county's first courthouse, and a church sprang up near the fort. There were no homes, however, because a provision of the Armed Occupation Act outlawed any personal dwellings within two miles of the fort. As a result, log cabins were scattered throughout the dense, uncleared woodlands.
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