Chaires, Florida

Chaires (pronounced as /tʃaɪrɛs/)[citation needed] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located just east of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, United States.

Green Hill and his brothers, Benjamin and Thomas Peter Chaires, all created thriving plantations in the southeastern section of Leon County.

Although the plantations are gone, their legacies still exist today in the names, families, pride and history of the area that is now known as Chaires.

Green Hill originally built a cotton plantation on the edge of Lake Lafayette, Florida.

In 1838, however, an Indian raid left several of his family members, including his wife, dead and his home burned to the ground.

Hugh Fisher and his "minute men"' were unable to pursue the trail due to a heavy rainstorm.

Perhaps it was the eastern location of the Chaires farm, and its distance from Old St. Augustine Road, which was the main thoroughfare at the time.

However, with the growing sprawl of the city of Tallahassee, more and more people in unincorporated eastern Leon County often distinguish themselves by associating with the "Chaires" community name.