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List 18 Tourist Attractions in Gainesville, Florida | Travel to United States
Here, 18 Top Tourist Attractions in Gainesville, United States..
There's Florida Museum of Natural History, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park, Haile Homestead, San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park, Ichetucknee Springs State Park, Lake Alice, Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Depot Park, The Thomas Center, Matheson History Museum, Cofrin Nature Park, Loblolly Woods Nature Park, Bivens Arm Nature Park, Boulware Springs Water Works, Alfred A. Ring Park, French Fries...
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Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Gainesville - Florida
Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Gainesville - Florida: Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Paynes Prairie, University of Florida Bat House, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Carson Springs Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, Thomas Center, Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Stephen C. O'Connell Center,
Driving around Gainesville, Florida
Since the 1990s, suburban sprawl has been a concern for a majority of the city commissioners. The New Urbanization plan to gentrify the area between historic Downtown and the University of Florida may slow the growth of suburban sectors and spark a migration toward upper-level apartments in the inner city. The area immediately north of the university is also seeing active redevelopment. Many gentrification plans rely on tax incentives that have sparked controversy and are sometimes unsuccessful. University Corners, which would not have been proposed without a $98 million tax incentive program by the city, was to be a crowning jewel of the city's redevelopment efforts, 450 condos and hotel units and 98,000 square feet (9,100 m2) of retail space in eight stories covering three city blocks, on 3.4 acres (1.4 ha) purchased for $15.5 million. 19 thriving businesses were demolished in April 2007, but in May 2008 deposit checks were refunded to about 105 people who reserved units, and in July 2008 developers spent $120,000 to beautify the site, so we won't have this ugly green fence.
Gainesville's east side houses the majority of the city's African-American community, while the west side consists of the mainly student and white resident population. West of the city limits are large-scale planned communities, most notably Haile Plantation, which was built on the site of its eponymous former plantation.
The destruction of the city's landmark Victorian courthouse in the 1960s, which some considered unnecessary, brought the idea of historic preservation to the community's attention. The bland county building that replaced the grand courthouse became known to some locals as the air conditioner. Additional destruction of other historic buildings in the downtown followed. Only a small handful of older buildings are left, like the Hippodrome State Theatre, at one time a federal building. Revitalization of the city's core has picked up, and many parking lots and underutilized buildings are being replaced with infill development and near-campus housing that blend in with existing historic structures. There is a proposal to rebuild a replica of the old courthouse on a parking lot one block from the original location.
Helping in this effort are the number of areas and buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places. Dozens of examples of restored Victorian and Queen Anne style residences constructed in the city's agricultural heyday of the 1880s and 1890s can be found in the following districts:
Northeast Gainesville Residential District
Southeast Gainesville Residential District
Pleasant Street Historic District
Additionally, the University of Florida Campus Historic District, consisting of 11 buildings and 14 contributing properties, lies within the city's boundaries. Most of the buildings in the Campus Historic District are constructed in variations of Collegiate Gothic architecture, which returned to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Historic structures on the Register in and around downtown are:
Bailey Plantation House (1854)
Colson House (1905)
Matheson House (1867)
Thomas Hotel (1910)
The Old Post Office (now the Hippodrome State Theatre) (1911)
Masonic Temple (1908)
Seagle Building (1926), downtown Gainesville's tallest building.
Baird Hardware Company Warehouse (1890)
Cox Furniture Store (1875)
Cox Furniture Warehouse (c. 1890)
Epworth Hall (1884)
Old Gainesville Depot (1907)
Mary Phifer McKenzie House (1895)
Star Garage (1902)
City Snapshot - Park Sunscreen Dispensers
People using Gainesville's parks, pools, and trails will soon have access to free sunscreen to protect their skin. The free dispensers will hold SPF-30 sunscreen and be installed at the city's recreational facilities.
SAR 125 Year Proclamation April 2014 City of Gainesville FL
City of Gainesville Florida Mayor Ed Braddy presented the Gainesville Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution a Proclamation Commemorating the 125 Year Anniversary of the NSSAR.
In 1876 there were many celebrations to commemorate the centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. As part of this patriotic fervor, a group of men in the San Francisco, California, area who were descendants of patriots involved in the American Revolution, formed an organization called the Sons of Revolutionary Sires. Their objective was to have a fraternal and civic society to salute those men and women who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the battle for independence from Great Britain. They desired to keep alive their ancestors' story of patriotism and courage in the belief that it is a universal one of man's struggle against tyranny -- a story which would inspire and sustain succeeding generations when they would have to defend and extend our freedoms.
Out of the Sires grew the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which was organized on April 30, 1889 -- the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as our nation's first President. We have used the acronym SAR to identify ourselves for over 100 years. The SAR was conceived as a fraternal and civic society composed of lineal descendants of the men who wintered at Valley Forge, signed the Declaration of Independence, fought in the battles of the American Revolution, served in the Continental Congress, or otherwise supported the cause of American Independence. The National Society was chartered by an Act of the United States Congress on June 9, 1906. The charter was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a member of the SAR. The charter authorizes the granting of charters to societies of the various states and territories and authorizes the state societies to charter chapters within their borders. Federal Legislation that established a federal charter for the National Society SAR.
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Cuba of Yesterday and Today
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Leiva Derwin, Owner/CEO at Fit is Good Company, and Thomas McKay, Vibraphonist, Composer, educator and Owner/CEO at Vibra Cubana, appear on Hispanic Hawaii with Richard Concepcion to discuss the evolution of Cuba yesterday and today.
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Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population of Gainesville in the 2010 United States Census was 124,354. Gainesville is the largest city in the region of North Central Florida.
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nation's eighth largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the #1 place to live in North America in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated. Also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the best places to live and play in the United States by National Geographic Adventure. Gainesville was ranked as the 5th meanest city in the United States by the National Coalition for the Homeless twice, first in 2004 for its criminalization of homelessness and then in 2009 for its ordinance restricting soup kitchens to 130 meals a day.
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Clear Lake Nature Park Gainesville Florida
White Sands Buddhist Center/Monastery
This is my first visit to the Monastery and what a delight! Beautiful and very peaceful. Amazing sculptures and setting. Definitely give it a visit if you're in the Brevard County area of Florida. The location is right off of the East Coast Greenway, aka East Central Regional Rail Trail, also aka Florida's Coast to Coast Trail which starts in Titusville, and heads North NW towards Osteen, FL in Volusia County. From the north end of this trail, you can get to Edgewater on the East Coast, or by 2019, you will be able to get to St Petersburg from here too.
Nathalies 8th grade graduation Lincoln Middle School Gainesville FL
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Mars Reunion Cocoa Beach
USS Mars AFS-1 Reunion at Cocoa Beach Florida October 12 to 14, 2011.
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ARTIST TOM PETTY - DIES AT 66!!
Tom Petty was rushed to the hospital late Sunday night after he was found unconscious. TMZ reports that the 66-year old musician was found not breathing and in full cardiac arrest. It has been reported that EMTs rushed to Petty's Malibu home and they were not able to get a pulse, so he was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica where he was placed on life support. Petty was taken off of life support earlier today and passed away peacefully.
We're told after Petty got to the hospital he had no brain activity and a decision was made to pull life support. -TMZ
TMZ also reports that they have reached out to Tom Petty's management, but nobody is talking just yet. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recently wrapped up a large tour, with the final show at the Hollywood Bowl last Monday evening. The reviews of the shows have been great, all praising the band for dusting off some old tracks that they haven't played in a while. Petty showed no sign of illness on the tour and was cracking jokes and telling stories every night of the tour.
Thomas Earl Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida and had a difficult upbringing due to a tumultuous relationship with his father. Petty dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to start the Epics and later Mudcrutch with future Heartbreakers members Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell. Mudcrutch eventually fell apart after a move to Los Angeles and Tom Petty started up the Heartbreakers with Campbell, Tench, Ron Blair, and Stan Lynch. The Heartbreakers gained traction in the U.K. first with the strength of Petty's songwriting. Breakdown was released as a single in 1977 and it helped launch the Heartbreakers into one of the biggest bands in the United States.
The Ancient City: St. Augustine, Florida
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Inside Juvenile Detention
As recently as 2005, the state of Virginia had eight centers like Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility, housing more than 1,300 delinquent youth. But by 2017, after a series of reforms, that number had shrunk to one.
“It's not that you can't do good work here,” said Andy Block, who, since 2014, has served as the juvenile-justice department’s director. “But the place itself and the design and the size and the location are barriers to doing good work.” Block and others are working to close Bon Air and replace it with something that reflects the juvenile justice reforms that have taken hold in Virginia and across the country—a system that once focused on confinement is now dedicated to rehabilitation. In recent years, more than 70 percent of Virginia's juvenile inmates were rearrested within three years of their release.*
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*This documentary originally stated that Virginia has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country. This characterization was based on incomplete data. The documentary also stated that the three-year rearrest rate for current Bon Air inmates would be 74 percent. This was the rate for former juvenile inmates in Virginia in 2014. We regret the errors.
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Paradise Park
Paradise Park was a segregated African-American resort located about a mile down the Silver River from the popular Silver Springs attraction near Ocala, Florida. The park was developed by Carl Ray and W.M. “Shorty” Davidson, co-owners of Silver Springs for nearly four decades. Paradise Park opened May 20, 1949 and remained open until 1969. African-American families, tour buses and church groups came from all over Florida and the United States to visit the attraction. Amenities included a pavilion with a dance floor and jukebox, a swimming area with a sandy beach, tropical landscaping and space for softball and other games. Like its counterpart Silver Springs, Paradise Park featured glass-bottom boat tours that introduced visitors to the beauty of the Silver River. Easter egg hunts, baptisms and picnics were common, and at Christmas, Santa Claus would cruise down the river on a glass-bottom boat to pass out candy, nuts and fruit for young visitors. Herpetologist Ross Allen even set up a reptile exhibit at the park, similar to the one located upriver at Silver Springs.
This was a promotional film advertising Paradise Park. It opens with a shot of a sign directing motorists to the attraction, likely located at the intersection of Paradise Road (now NE 24th St.) and State Road 40. Scenes from the parking lot and picnic area come next, followed by footage from one of the park’s annual Labor Day beauty contests. These competitions were sponsored by the American Legion and featured contestants from across the state. Toward the end of the contest footage, a Legion official presents the winners with their awards. The film then moves on to the glass bottom boats, including footage of the passengers’ view into the clear waters of the Silver River. A young man and woman identified as Thomas and Lottie Donaldson swim to the sandy bottom with a sign that reads “Don’t Miss Paradise Park.” Bathers dive into the swimming area from a platform. The final scenes are from Ross Allen’s reptile exhibit, where an assistant is shown feeding and herding alligators. Two assistants are then seen in a snake exhibit, one handing a snake to someone in the crowd.
The State Archives partnered with Department of Environmental Protection, the owners of the film, to preserve the original 16 mm film and digitize it. Archivists sought outside assistance and worked closely with the film restoration specialists at MediaPreserve, an Audio-Visual Laboratory in Pennsylvania to restore most of the film stock and create a digital reproduction of its contents.
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