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Gainesville was founded to place the Alachua County seat on the proposed route of the Florida Railroad Company's line stretching from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach.
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022.
Historian Ben Pickard recaptures the essence of Gainesville area history and explains how war, commerce, exploration and expansion characterize our city's storied evolution. From natural history to the Civil War, Gainesville is a hotbed of noteworthy landmarks.
Gainesville, city, seat (1853) of Alachua county, north-central Florida, U.S., about 70 miles (115 km) southwest of Jacksonville. The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto marched through the area in 1539, and settlement eventually developed around a trading post known as Hog Town (established 1830).
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13 de abr. de 2019 · For the record, Gainesville was officially established in 1854. It was first incorporated in 1866, a year after the Civil War ended. Florida was under military rule until 1867 and the next...
Gainesville, named in honor of Seminole Indian War General Edmund P. Gaines, was founded on September 6, 1853. The following month Major James B. Bailey, a cotton plantation owner and former County Treasurer, sold over sixty acres of his land to be used for this new city.
Gainesville é uma cidade localizada no estado norte-americano da Flórida, no condado de Alachua, do qual é sede. Foi fundada em 1854 e incorporada em 14 de abril de 1869. [1]
