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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.
Turkey Creek Preserve is located at 6300 NW 93rd Ave, west of Northwest 59th Terrace and north of Northwest 93rd Avenue in Alachua County, Florida. [2] [3] It borders San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park. The preserve harbors nearly a mile of its namesake Turkey Creek's waters. [3]
In 1927, Camp Ranch, Inc. built a canal system to divert water coming into Alachua Lake in the Paynes Prairie Basin from Newnans Lake to Orange Lake through the River Styx. The diversion of the water meant a loss of 50% of the surface water supply to Paynes Prairie. That same year, the state of Florida built U.S. 441 through the basin. In 1937 ...
Alachua (/ ə ˈ l æ tʃ u eɪ / ⓘ ə-LATCH-oo-ay) is the second-most populous city in Alachua County, Florida and the third-largest in North Central Florida. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 10,574, up from 9,059 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Spain began granting land to individuals in Florida after 1790, including a grant of 6,000 acres (24 km 2) to S. D. Fernandez and another grant to a Sanchez in the present-day park. Four of the archaeological sites in the park are possibly associated with those land grants, and/or with the settlement of Spring Grove , which existed in the 1830s ...
Protected areas of Alachua County, Florida (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Alachua County, Florida" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
In 1891, Florida A&M moved to its current home on a hill above Villa Mitchell and the neighborhood became a Black residential area. Once FAMU Way was completed, the park was paired with the ...
Orange Lake is in Alachua County, Florida, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Hawthorne. It has an area of about 12,550 acres (5,080 ha), and is part of the Orange Creek Basin, which is in turn part of the Oklawaha River watershed. Cross Creek flows into it from Lochloosa Lake, and Orange Creek drains it into the Rodman Reservoir.