Gainesville is a city, seat of Alachua County, northern Florida; integrated as a city 1907. It is the processing and shipping center for a place producing beef cattle, poultry, and lumber. Its several manufactures incorporate sporting goods, batteries, electronic parts, as well as plastics. The University of Florida (1853) is here. Interesting attractions include the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Seminole people resided here when the area was settled about 1830. The city is named for General Edmund P. Gaines, a figure of the War of 1812 and also the Second Seminole War.
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