Evergreen Hills Plantation

In 2000 the community of Chaires was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Evergreen Hills Plantation had the following: Green Hill Chaires' brother was Benjamin Chaires who laid out and named the area of Jacksonville in 1822.

During the Second Seminole War of 1835–1842, Chaires' wife and two of his children along with several slaves were massacred and the home was destroyed.

Aside from being a plantation owner, Green Chaires built the state's first plank road, which connected Leon County plantations to the Gulf Coast shipping communities of Newport and St. Marks.

Also on the transportation end, Chaires was on the 1861–1865 Board of Directors of the Tallahassee Railroad.