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We would like to provide the residents of  Gainesville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Gainesville Home page. The Gainesville Home page provides as much information as possible on Gainesville. Knowing Gainesville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gainesville’s Home page, you will also find Gainesville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Gainesville has a population of 203541. 47.9% of Gainesville’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.1 are female. 23.5% of Gainesville is married and 38.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $178,237, and the average rent is $965. Household median income in Gainesville is $38,028, and the individual median income is $20,947. Gainesville’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.5%), Black(20.7%), Hispanic(12.2%), Asian(6.7%), Multiple(6.2%), Other(1.3%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.1%).


There is archeological evidence, from about 12,000 years ago, of the presence of Paleo Indians in the Gainesville area, although it is not known if there were any permanent settlements. A Deptford culture campsite existed in Gainesville and was estimated to have been used between 500 BCE and 100 CE. The Deptford people moved south into Paynes Prairie and Orange Lake during the first century and evolved into the Cades Pond culture.


The Deptford people who remained in the Gainesville area were displaced by migrants from southern Georgia sometime in the seventh century. These migrants evolved into the Alachua culture and they built their burial mound on top of the Deptford culture campsite. When Europeans made first contact in the area, the Potano lived in the area.


They were descendants of the Alachua culture people. European contact diminished the numbers of native peoples (through disease, enslavement, war) and Spanish colonists began cattle ranching in the Paynes Prairie area in the 18th century. The Spanish ceded Florida to the US in 1821.Gainesville was established in 1854 and named after Edmund P.


Gaines. The town of Gainesville was incorporated in 1869 and chartered as a city in 1907. The University of the State of Florida was moved from Lake City to Gainesville in 1906 and its name was simplified to University of Florida in 1909.


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