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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.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site located on the former homestead of Pulitzer Prize-winning Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953). A National Historic Landmark , it is located in Cross Creek, Florida , between Ocala and Gainesville at 18700 South County Road 325.
Florida bombing Range helps pilots hone skills. JaxAirNews.com. accessed 19-Feb-07. McLane. W.M. (1955). The Fishes of the St Johns River System. PhD. Dissertation. University of Florida, August, 1955. Tagatz, M.E. (1965). The Fishery for Blue Crabs in the St. Johns River, Florida, with Special Reference to Fluctuation in Yield Between 1961 and ...
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.
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. [7] It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022.
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.
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 ...