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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29IB_gatorades-birthplace_Gainesville-FL.html
Gatorade, the sports drink that started an industry, was invented at the UF College of Medicine by a team of researchers led by Dr. Robert Cade. Gatorade was first field tested in a football scrimmage near this site and was first used in an Octobe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23II_kanapaha-presbyterian-church_Gainesville-FL.html
In 1857, a group of Sea Island cotton planters from South Carolina who settled near here called an organizational meeting to establish Kanapaha Presbyterian Church. The Reverend William J. McCormick (1821-1883) was recruited from South Carolina to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BX6_historic-haile-homested-at-kanapaha-plantation_Gainesville-FL.html
One of the oldest houses in Alachua County, the Historic Haile Homestead was the home of Thomas Evans Haile, his wife Esther Serena Chesnut Haile and 14 of their children. The Hailes came here from Camden, South Carolina in 1854 to establish a 1,5…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3Q_serenola-plantation_Gainesville-FL.html
(side 1)In 1857, David Rogerson Williams II (1822-1907) of Darlington Co., SC, purchased 1,000 acres, including this site bordering Paynes Prarie, and developed them as a plantation known as "Serenola." The 1860 census shows 120 slaves lived in 24…