Newberry is a city located in the southwest corner of Alachua County, Florida, United States.

Since 2019, Newberry's city commission has included a National Development Officer for the right-wing John Birch Society.

Newberry developed as a mining town after phosphate was discovered in the western part of Alachua County in the 1880s.

In 1893, the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railway was extended southward from High Springs to Newberry, leading to its development as a railroad town and trading center.

[5] A post office established in March 1894 was named Newton, but changed to Newberry in August of that year.

In this period, racial violence against blacks rose in Alachua County, where lynchings took place to enforce white supremacy.

Newberry had hotels, boarding houses, and saloons to accommodate the area's transient and sometimes unruly population.

The Watermelon Festival, first held in 1946, a year after the end of World War II, continues to be celebrated as an annual event.

[6] Filmmaker Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, who is working on a documentary about African Americans in Alachua County, has studied these events.

[16] Easton Newberry Sports Complex, a shared-use facility that combines the Easton Foundation Archery Center with the City of Newberry multiuse Recreation Department, and was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as a Community Olympic Development Program.

With 100 acres of multipurpose facilities – including dedicated areas for archery training and events – the site currently reaches 6,200 people each year.