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Your Guide To:
Gainesville Florida
Your Guide to Hotels, Restaurants, Tickets, Tours and More!
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About Gainesville
Seat of north central Florida's Alachua County, Gainesville is best known as home of the University of Florida. This well-regarded public school, lair of the Fighting Gators, not only imparts a youthful vigor to the city of approximately 115,000 but is also the county's largest employer. The town itself sits amid pine... [read more]
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Gainesville Factoid
In the early history of North Central Florida, Newnansville was the seat of Alachua County. When the railroad linking Cedar Key on Florida's western coast to Fernandina Beach on its eastern coast was constructed, it passed through Gainesville, which was then promoted as the new county seat. This role was confirmed by authorities in 1854. (Newnansville, by the way, evolved roughly into the town of Alachua, northwest of Gainesville.)
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