In 1884, the Gainesville, Rocky Point and Micanopy Railway was chartered. In 1895, the railroad company was sold to L.L. Hill and renamed the Gainesville and Gulf Railway Company, and construction began in July. Later that year, the railroad from Gainesville to Micanopy opened as a twelve-mile line. By 1899, it had been extended south to Fairfield and north to Sampson City, reaching forty-eight miles and connecting to the Georgia South Florida Railroad Company. Its stock included three locomotives, two passenger cars, one baggage car, and fourteen freight cars. The name was later changed to the Tampa and Jacksonville Railroad, or T and J, and in Micanopy it was called the Tug and Jerk. Its latest name was the Jacksonville and Gulf Railway. It later operated as a freight line by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. In 1943, the railroad was abandoned except for a few miles used by the Atlantic Coastline to bypass Gainesville.