Remembering Suwannee: Wellborn, Part 2

Eric Musgrove Contributor In the Wednesday, June 12, edition of the Riverbend News, we began a study of the history of Wellborn, one of Suwannee County's earliest communities. We will continue that study today. Due to the increasing number of settlers in the area that would soon become Suwannee County, the Florida Legislature petitioned the Federal Government in mid-December of 1856 to establish a mail route "from the House of Geo. E. McLellan's (sic) on Little River in Columbia County to Shoal Town on Suwannee River, via Samuel Barber's and Wm. Johnson's, a distance of thirty miles." Since a map from 1856 already showed "Little River P.O.," either Little River already had a post office