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Obverse of the historical marker in front of the Westside Recreation Center. Hogtown was a 19th-century settlement in and around what is now Westside Park in Gainesville, Florida, United States (in the northeast corner of the intersection of NW 8th Avenue and 34th Street) where a historical marker [1] [2] [3] notes Hogtown's location at that site and is the eponymous outpost of the adjacent ...
Timucua teepee village in Florida circa 1562. Hernando de Soto and his army passed through Gainesville in August 1539 towards the beginning of their four-year exploration of what is now the southeastern United States, the third village where they stayed, Utinamocharra, having been in the dense cluster east of Moon Lake [13] at the northwestern edge of present-day Gainesville.
City of Gainesville Morningside Nature Center is a 416-acre nature park [ 1 ] located in Gainesville , Alachua County in the U.S. state of Florida and overseen by the City of Gainesville. [ 2 ] It features a living history farm meant to simulate a North Florida family homestead from the mid to late 1800s.
Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park is a Florida state park located in the north-westernmost part of Gainesville, Florida, off County Road 232, also known as NW 53rd Avenue and Millhopper Road, northwest of the University of Florida.
Paradise was a suburb of Gainesville that was eventually annexed into the city of Gainesville. Spring Grove was the second county seat of Alachua County, after Newnansville was included in the newly created Columbia County, until Newnansville was returned to Alachua County and restored as the county seat.
The Northeast Gainesville Residential District, also known locally as the Duckpond, is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on February 12, 1980) located in Gainesville, Florida. It encompasses approximately 1,660 acres (6.7 km 2), bounded by 1st, and 9th Streets, 10th and East University Avenues. It contains 229 historic buildings.
The Historic Haile Homestead, also known as Haile Plantation House or Kanapaha, is a historic site and museum in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is located at 8500 SW Archer Rd. SR 24. On May 2, 1986, the plantation house was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.The Homestead is unique in the Nation for its "Talking ...
Paradise was an unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida, United States. [1] It has been annexed into the city of Gainesville, and is located approximately where Alachua County Road 232 (N.W. 53rd Avenue) crosses U.S. Route 441. [2] The area around Paradise was settled in the 1830s.