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Welcome to the Gainesville Florida Florida page. Gainesville is in a good location for a lay over on your way south towards Miami and Key West Florida We produce the worlds best virtual tours for you to plan your vacation. Your Gainesville Vacation can be filled with Things to do. The easiest way to set up your stay may be to purchase Gainesville Vacation Packages which include Gainesville Hotels or maybe Gainesville Condos, which can be a way to bring the whole family down to Florida for big events. Now everyone in the party can visit our site and get their own Gainesville Hotel and some may prefer to stay in their own Gainesville Accommodations that can easily be found here. You may love our sunshine state paradise so much a look at Gainesville Real Estate might just be in order. The entire market has been literally booming for many years. If you're looking for a great place to add your URL link for free we offer great reciprocal link exchange program for increased link popularity with Gainesville Link Exchange. A lot of vacationers actually purchase Gainesville Vacation Rentals to use part of the year and rent out the other times of the year. Many fishing captains are available for charters and some will pick up from your Gainesville Resorts and take you right to the boat. Our Gainesville Attractions are great, and most are very close to nice Gainesville Restaurants or your favorite Gainesville Bars. Everything you ever wanted to know about the entire state can be found on our network of websites. Gainesville's original inhabitants were the Timucua Indians. Spanish colonists began cattle ranching in the Payne's Prairie area using Timucua labor and the largest ranch became known as LaChua. Though the ranch was eventually destroyed by British raiders, it nevertheless gave its name to the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe who settled in the region in the 1700s under the leadership of the great chief Ahaya the Cowkeeper. Gainesville was originally formed along the Florida Railroad Company's line stretching from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach as part of a route eventually carrying cargo from New Orleans to New York. In 1854 Gainesville became the new Alachua County seat (moving from the more populated but inconveniently located Newnansville). The city is named for General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of U.S. Army troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War. Gainesville was the scene of small-scale fighting in the Civil War. On February 15, 1864, a skirmish erupted when about 50 Union troops entered the city intending to capture two trains. The Second Florida Cavalry successfully repulsed this raid. The raiding party was eventually defeated at the Battle of Olustee five days later. Later that year, the Battle of Gainesville took place on August 17, 1864. Three-hundred Union troops occupying the city were attacked by the Florida Cavalry. The Federals were driven out of town and suffered significant casualties. ollowing the civil war, the city prospered as a major citrus growing center, with direct rail access to ports on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. However, this prosperity ended when the great freezes of 1894 and 1899 destroyed the entire crops, and citrus growing moved permanently south to the Orlando area. Other attempts to replace this lost industry included phosphate mining, turpentine production and tung oil had only moderate success.

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