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Welcome to the capital of Gator Nation
Original inhabitants around Gainesville were the Timucua Indians. When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, they brought cattle and began ranching, using Indian labor. The largest ranch was called LaChua, destroyed by the British. The region was given the name Alachua for the Seminole tribe who settled here in the 1700s. Their great chief was Ahaya the Cowkeeper. Named for General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of U.S. Army troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War, Gainesville came into existence when the Florida Railroad Company extended its line from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach, Florida. In 1854 Gainesville became the Alachua County seat. The city saw fighting during the Civil War, the main being the Battle of Gainesville in 1864.
In 1905 the Florida Legislature created the University of Florida in 1905. Today, it is one of the largest universities in the United States. The development of this educational institution brought an influx of young students, cultural programs and a major medical center. The sports drink Gatorade was invented in Gainesville for the UF football team. The city has continued to develop with not only additions to the University, but as a major residential community with historic landmarks, cultural attractions, and outdoor recreation in preserved natural settings.
Gainesville might be best known as the home of the reigning college football national champions, but there is much more than the pomp and pageantry of fall football Saturdays as seen on ESPN.
The city of about 114,000, 90 miles south of the Georgia border, has nationally known museums of art and natural history, and lush botanical gardens. Just out of town, guides in 1930s-style garb lead visitors through the home of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author from that era. Theaters on and off campus offer plays and concerts. Restaurant fare includes succulent coconut curry chicken and Caprese pizza.
Indian tribes and Spanish settlers were the area’s first inhabitants, followed by farmers from Georgia and the Carolinas who arrived in search of more fertile land. Because of its location midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and between Jacksonville and Tampa, the city became an important railroad junction in the early 1900s, said Kevin McCarthy, a former professor of English and linguistics at the University of Florida and the author of several books on Florida history. Its inland hurricane-resistant location also encouraged growth.
The University of Florida, set on 2,000 acres with an enrollment of over 52,000, is the heartbeat of Gainesville. But that pulse wasn’t always a sure thing. The university was originally located in Lake City, 30 miles away. Gainesville’s promise of free water — which Lake City couldn’t match — lured the institution down the road. It opened in Gainesville in 1906. These days, the business of education is the largest employer in town, serving Gators as well as nearby Santa Fe College’s 16,588 students.
Gainesville and its environs are a curious melding of academia and the arts with the natural sights of Old Florida. The campus is a world unto itself, with 900 buildings, including gracious red brick halls, a cultural plaza and an elegant sorority row. Downtown is its own commercial district. But drive a few minutes out of town and there are fields where horses graze and farmhouses with tall windows and wide verandas. Cypress trees line two-lane roads.
In fact, the region that became Gainesville was home to many Indian tribes. The Timucua were the first recorded inhabitants, their presence noted in the 16th and 17th centuries. Their village became part of a Spanish land grant, and in 1821 the United States annexed Florida from Spain.
For the next 20 years, the Seminole Indians resisted government efforts to relocate them westward. Ultimately, starvation and defeat in battles forced their surrender. The settlement, originally dubbed Hog Town, was named Gainesville in 1854 in honor of Edmund P. Gaines, an Army officer who had led expeditions against the Seminoles.
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