Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1938.
From the record
“The Rochelle School, which was previously known as the Martha Perry Institute, is a historic site in Rochelle, Florida. The school was built on land given by Sallie Perry, daughter of Madison Starke Perry, and named for her mother Martha Perry.”
Wikipedia article Rochelle School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73000565- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1938 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
16 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19381954
Fires near this property
143 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Rochelle School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Natural
27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
25
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Railroad operations and maintenance
23
Debris and open burning
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Arson/incendiarism
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 18,938 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Rochelle School between 1806 and 1975: 8,501 Animalia, 8,277 Fungi, 1,067 Protozoa, 855 Plantae, 136 Chromista, 100 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rochelle, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Trees were blown down at SE County Road 2082 and County Road 234. One tree hit a bridge on County Road 234 and the road was closed until the bridge was inspected and considered safe for travel. The cost of damage was estimated for event inclusion in Storm Data.
Trees were blown down on Southeast County Road 234. The road was closed to the tree debris. The time of the event was based on radar. The cost of damage/debris removal was estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
State Watch office relayed report of major tree and power line damage along County Road 234 between Micanopy and Rochelle. A tornado touchdown was confirmed just south of this damage area at Lake Waubug.
Flood waters were reported to be three feet deep in the 2400 Block of Southwest 31st Place near the Phoenix Apartments with vehicles stranded in the floodwaters. other flooding was reported around the county with sinkholes also opening on Tuesday evening.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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