Micanopy ( MIK-ə-NOH-pee) is a town in Alachua County, Florida, United States, located south of Gainesville. The population as of the 2010 census was 600. The oldest community in the interior of Florida that has been until the terminate of time inhabited, it has a downtown that is designated as the Micanopy Historic District and listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. It contains a number of antiquated stores, as capably as several restaurants, a library, firehouse, and herald office. The town’s unofficial slogan is “The Town that Time Forgot.”

In 1774 the American naturalist William Bartram recorded his impressions of a proto-Seminole village named Cuscowilla — along later than its chief, Cowkeeper or Ahaya — located in the same vicinity as the avant-garde town.

By the times Spain ceded its Florida provinces to the U.S. in 1821, the newly build up hamlet of Micanopy became the first determined United States town in the Florida Territory. One of the founders was Moses Elias Levy, a wealthy Jewish businessman and philanthropist who was practicing in West Indies shipping and further interests. He immigrated to the United States in 1820 and founded “Pilgrimage”, the first Jewish communal treaty in the United States located two miles from town.

The village of Micanopy was built under the protection of the Florida Association of New York (the very old Florida progress corporation, headquartered in Manhattan). Chief Micanopy lived practically 60 miles (97 km) south in present-day Sumter County. In 1821, when the territorial village was developed, a faction of Miccosukee Indians lived in the gruff area. The historian C. S. Monaco has suggested that the town was named after Micanopy “to appease the chief and take his indigenous authority beyond the land.” In the upfront days, the frontier village was sometimes referred to as “Wantons,” after one of the native settlers.