The Fletcher Community was established when Dixie County was part of Lafayette County and both were part of Madison County. In the early 1850s, Fletcher families and other families emigrated south from the Carolinas through Georgia, bringing their livestock and seeking better pastures. Other families followed, including the Edmond, Bell Boatright, Gronto, Hatch, Matthis, Jones, Sauls, and Ward families. Settlers used the Suwannee River to move cotton and farm produce by steamboat to the railroad at Cedar Key. Most settlers of the Methodist faith attended services at Pleasant Grove Church, established by Rev. John A. Fletcher (1811-1858). The church is now gone, but the Pleasant Grove and Ward Cemeteries remain as reminders of the community's settlers. William Rete Fletcher served as Madison County's Justice of the Peace from 1847 to 1849 and as Clerk of Circuit Court of Lafayette County from 1856 to 1858. U.S. Postal records show Matilda J. Jones Fletcher as the community's first Postmaster, and Eborn Haywood Sauls, William R. Fletcher, and Mittie (Matilda) Fletcher later served as Postmasters.