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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
Into the category of cities left with better names than they were originally titled, include Gainesville. Ultimately named for Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, an Army commander during the Second Seminole War and the captor of Aaron Burr, the city was at one time known as "Hogtown" for the creek that ran through the town.
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