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Gainesville, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Alachua. Associated ZIP codes: 32601, 32602, 32603, 32604, 32605, 32606, 32607, 32608, 32609, 32610, 32611, 32612, 32614, 32627, 32635, 32641, 32653.
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. Gainesville City Commissioner Cynthia Moore Chestnut, a prominent member of the local Black community and former Democratic state legislator and forme...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Ole Miss coach Pete Golding got straight to the point after a 52-28 loss to Florida on Saturday, describing the game as an "old-fashione...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Todd Golden has signed his third contract extension in three years, making him the highest-paid Gators coach in school hi...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida shooting guard Denzel Aberdeen cleared a major hurdle in his bid for a fifth-year of eligibility, but he likely faces another b...
Daphne Marie Nelson (Marie), 97, passed away in Gainesville, Florida, on April 26, 2026. Born on September 13, 1928, in Des Moines, to Dagmar …
Daphne Marie Nelson (Marie), 97, passed away in Gainesville, Florida, on April 26, 2026. Born on September 13, 1928, in Des Moines, to Dagmar …
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thomas Haugh and Alex Condon grew up on opposite sides of the globe. One was raised amid the rolling farmland of rural Pennsylvania. Th...
GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida is planning the most expensive — and potentially most comprehensive — stadium renovation in college football hi...
Florida secured the No. 8 national NCAA seed and will host Miami, Troy and Rider in the Gainesville Regional beginning Friday.
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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
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Gainesville is in Alachua County, Florida.
Region: North Florida
32601, 32602, 32603, 32604, 32605, 32606, 32607, 32608, 32609, 32610, 32611, 32612, 32614, 32627, 32635, 32641, 32653
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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Gainesville, the seat of Alachua County, has archaeological evidence of Paleo-Indians from about 12,000 years ago. A Deptford culture campsite was used between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 100; some of its people moved south to Paynes Prairie and Orange Lake and developed into the Cades Pond culture, while those who stayed were displaced in the seventh century by migrants from southern Georgia, who became the Alachua culture and built a burial mound atop the old campsite. The Potano people, their descendants, lived here when Europeans arrived.
European contact sharply reduced the Native population through disease, enslavement and war, and in the 18th century Spanish colonists ranched cattle around Paynes Prairie. Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1821. Gainesville was established in 1854 and named for General Edmund P. Gaines. It was incorporated as a town in 1869 and chartered as a city in 1907. In 1906 the University of the State of Florida moved from Lake City to Gainesville, and in 1909 its name was shortened to the University of Florida, which now dominates the city. Paynes Prairie, a 21,000-acre wilderness, lies at its southern edge. Sources Wikipedia: Gainesville, Florida
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