Sugarhill

sugarhill

Sugarhill straddles Southeast Fourth Street, one of Gainesville’s oldest, and historically most important, roads.   Southeast Fourth Street has connected the City of Gainesville with Bouleware Springs, the City’s first waterworks, since the City’s founding in the mid-19th century.

Sugarhill is defined by Sweetwater Branch, on the northwest, and Williston Road, on the southeast. It extends from SE Fourth Terrace on the northeast to SE First Court, on the southwest.  The neighborhood is comprised of two adjacent platted subdivisions, Norwood Heights and Washington Estates.  

At the top of Sugarhill, near the intersection of SE Fourth Street and Williston Road, stands a two-story building which formerly housed the grocery store owned by the family of Civil Rights activist Barbara Higgins.  For decades the grocery store was an important component of the neighborhood and the larger community.  Today a City of Gainesville park named for Mrs. Higgins is located in Sugarhill on Southeast Second Terrace.  The neighborhood includes many single-family homes, some multi-generational, and several active churches.