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Gainesville, Florida Area DemographicsWith a location in the north-central part of the Florida peninsula, Gainesville, Florida real estate lies about halfway between Atlanta and Miami, the two biggest metropolitan areas in the Southeast. With a population of 108,856 (2004 U.S. census estimate), Gainesville is the largest city and county seat of Alachua County (population: 223,852). Another 50,000 students are enrolled at the University of Florida, the fourth-largest university in the U.S.
Gainesville is steeped in a rich history of traditional Southern culture, yet the university has helped to create something of a second personality for the city as it embraces modern culture and the arts. Today, east Gainesville is certainly more traditionally Southern than west Gainesville, where the university is located. Some refer to Gainesville as the end of the South, because little of Florida south of Gainesville is traditionally Southern.
The median age of Gainesville residents is a low 27. All of the counties surrounding Alachua County vote heavily Republican, while Gainesville votes strongly Democratic. Gainesville is considered one of the most affordable cities to live in Florida.
Due to its inland location, Gainesville experiences wider temperature fluctuations than many other parts of Florida. The average high in June is 89 degrees and the average low in January is 65, but winter lows often dip below freezing, with a record low of 6 degrees recorded in 1985, on one of the coldest days in U.S. history. It snows about every 10-15 years, evidenced by a substantial snow and ice storm on Christmas Eve of 1989. Plants and trees are more distinct from coastal regions of Florida and include many deciduous species, such as dogwood, maple, hickory and sweetgum alongside palm trees and other evergreens. The city enjoys brief periods of fall color in late November and December and a noticeable and prolonged spring from late February through early April.
Gainesville, Florida History and CultureThe original residents of Gainesville, Florida real estate were Timucuan Indians. Native Americans lived in the area for thousands of years, drawn by the area’s unique combination of fertile soil, broad prairies, clear lakes and abundant game. Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century, followed by Franciscan priests who founded missions, followed by cattle ranchers. The Alachua, a band of the Seminole tribe for which the county is named, eventually settled in the area.
Alachua County was created in 1824 as a massive county, extending from the Georgia border to Tampa Bay. Constant partitioning and the Second Seminole War slowed county development, but the arrival of the railroad opened up the Florida interior for both settlement and trading. Gainesville is named for Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, commander of U.S. Army troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War (1835-42). By 1860, Alachua County had over 8,000 inhabitants, while Gainesville, its main city, had 232 residents. During the Civil War, Gainesville served as a major Confederate commissary and was the site of two battles. By 1877, the end of Reconstruction, Alachua County had grown to 18,000 residents, with 1,400 in Gainesville, which had become a mercantile center for cotton and vegetable crops.
During the next 25 years, the citrus and phosphate industries helped secure economic prosperity in the area. After two major fires in the 1880s, Gainesville rebuilt with all brick structures and constructed an imposing new red brick courthouse to signal its growth from a town to a city. The railroad had arrived and Gainesville rose to become one of Florida’s largest towns, with an opera house, paved streets, city water, telephones and electric lights. Wealthy merchants built fine new homes near the downtown area to create fashionable districts in the southeast part of the city and along what is now University Avenue. Although severe freezes in the 1890s blighted much of the agricultural pursuits, Alachua County was home to 32,000 by the dawn of the 20th century.
Although the boll weevil blighted the cotton crops and World War I brought an end to the phosphate industry, the defining moment for Gainesville’s future was the selection of Gainesville as the site for the University of Florida in 1905. When the university opened a year later it had only 102 students, 15 faculty members and two unfinished buildings. Twenty years later the student body numbered 2,000 and attended classes in 13 Gothic-style buildings including a library, a gymnasium and an auditorium. By the 1930s the university had become the most important component in the county’s economy and helped it weather both the land boom collapse of the mid-1920s and the long depression of the 1930s. During these years before World War II, the county’s population remained fairly constant at nearly 40,000, but Gainesville’s population soared to almost 14,000, nearly four times its size in 1900.
The postwar era ushered in tremendous population growth and economic expansion. The influx of thousands of veterans seeking an education transformed both the university and the city of Gainesville. The university admitted coeds in 1947, added a medical school in 1958 and by 1970 had a student body of 23,000. The sports drink Gatorade was invented in Gainesville in 1965 as a means of refreshing the UF football team. Today the university’s enrollment is about 50,000 and the school has become one of the major research institutions in the entire South.
While the university was growing, Gainesville’s downtown area became a professional and government center. In the 1980s, neighborhoods like the Duckpond, the Southeast and the Pleasant Street areas all created historic districts and thus preserved their unique residential character and protected their fine Victorian homes.
The preservation efforts spurred the city’s willingness to sponsor and financially support significant restoration projects like the Thomas Center, the Hippodrome, the Seagle and the American Legion buildings. A new courthouse with an outdoor plaza, a new library and the five-story Union Street Station were built, while older buildings like the Star Garage, Florida Theater and Bethel Gas Station were restored. Although Gainesville’s landmark Victorian courthouse was demolished in the 1960s, dozens of examples of restored Victorian and Queen Anne style residences constructed in the city’s agricultural heydays of the late 1800s endure today in the Northeast Gainesville and Southeast Gainesville residential districts and the Pleasant Street Historic District.
As a fitting climax to these revitalization efforts, Money Magazine in 1995 named Gainesville as the most livable city in America.
Gainesville, Florida Attractions, Activities and AmenitiesGainesville, Florida real estate differs from many other areas of the Sunshine State in that its economy is not based on tourism. Instead, Gainesville has established itself as the cultural, educational and commercial center of north-central Florida, a course that led to its 1995 selection as the Most Livable City in America.
Gainesville was rated among the top 10 cities in America for outdoor activities in a 2005 survey and was ranked the most technologically-advanced city in Florida (No. 30 in the U.S.) on another list. The 1,700-acre Haile Plantation subdivision southwest of the city is considered a model for community development.
Cultural facilities include the Florida Museum of Natural History (including the Butterfly Rainforest exhibit), Harn Museum of Art, the Hippodrome State Theatre, Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and The Civic Media Center. Smaller theaters include the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre and the Gainesville Community Playhouse. The annual Downtown Festival & Art Show has earned critical acclaim. Other attractions include the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Payne’s Prairie, Lake Alice and the Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park.
Author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived on Cross Creek near Hawthorne, Florida in Alachua County and wrote the Pulitzer-winning “The Yearling” and other novels there. Her homestead is now the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970.
In addition to UF, Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville has about 15,000 students. Gainesville has a fairly well-known punk and ska music scene and has spawned a number of popular national bands, including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Sister Hazel. Gainesville Raceway is a nationally-known venue for drag racing and top fuel motorsports events.
Few places offer such diversity and opportunity as Gainesville. Whether you seek a luxury home, a starter home, a condominium, a townhouse or an investment property, NewHomesRealEstate.net can help you find the Gainesville, Florida real estate you desire.
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