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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13FW_city-of-gainesville_Gainesville-FL.html
Designated the County Seat in 1854, and incorporated as a City in 1869, Gainesville takes its name from General Edmund Gaines, captor of Aaron Burr and commander of U.S. Army troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War. The town was the fourt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13CM_east-florida-seminary_Gainesville-FL.html
Founded as the Gainesville Academy before the Civil War and later renamed, the East Florida Seminary served Gainesville's need for higher education until the University of Florida was created by the Florida Legislature in 1905. The Seminary school…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12Q0_first-gainesville-skirmish-battle-of-gainesville_Gainesville-FL.html
First Gainesville SkirmishThe first Civil War gunfire in Gainesville's streets came on February 15, 1864, when a raiding party of 50 men from the 40th Massachusetts Cavalry entered the City to attempt the capture of two trains. The raid was unprod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11WL_roper-park-old-city-park_Gainesville-FL.html
Roper Park is the original site of the parade grounds and barracks for the East Florida Seminary, a non-sectarian educational institution and a forerunner of the University of Florida, which was located in Gainsville in part due to the presence of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11MG_mount-pleasant-united-methodist-church_Gainesville-FL.html
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on July 16, 1867, with the Reverend Isaac Davis serving as the first pastor. The Board of Trustees of the oldest black congregation in Gainesville purchased the lot on which the present church …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11HU_the-bailey-house_Gainesville-FL.html
This is one of the oldest houses in the city of Gainesville. It was constructed about 1850 by Major James B. Bailey, a prominent citizen of Alachua County. Bailey was a leading proponent of moving the county seat away from Newnansville to a new pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11H8_josiah-t-walls_Gainesville-FL.html
Born in 1842 to slave parents in Winchester, Va., little is known of Josiah T. Walls' early life. After a short term of Confederate service, he enlisted in the Third Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops in 1863. Transferred to Picolata on the St. Johns R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM118G_gainesvilles-railroads-past-railroads-of-gainesville_Gainesville-FL.html
Gainesville's Railroads The coming of the Florida Railroad opened up the interior of Florida for both settlement and trading and helped establish Gainesville. On February 1, 1859 the Florida Railroad entered town and connected Fernandina Beach wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM117L_confederate-soldier-memorial_Gainesville-FL.html
(North face) In Memory Of TheConfederateDead1861 1865
(East face)"They Fell For Us and For ThemShould FallThe Tears Of A Nation's Grief."
(West face)They Counted The CostAnd In Defence Of RightThey Paid The Martyr's Price."
(South face) E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM117K_alachula-county-courthouse_Gainesville-FL.html
The Alachua County Commission, by authority of the Florida Legislature, selected this site for a courthouse in 1854, moving the county seat from Newnansville. The first courthouse was a frame building completed in 1856. It was demolished on the co…