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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
The Thomas R. Pierce House (also known as the Pierce Hotel) is a historic house in Bushnell, Florida. It is locally significant as an outstanding example of vernacular architecture, and the only historic hotel or boarding house from this period remaining in Bushnell.
Hog Lake is the historical name for Lake Granada, a natural freshwater lake in the Sun 'N Lake community, in Highlands County, Florida. Lake Granada has a surface area of 19.6-acre (79,000 m 2). About 1-acre (4,000 m 2) of this is a manmade island inside the lake. The lake is directly north of the Sun 'N Lake community center and is inside a park.