22 Facts About Gainesville Florida

The Deptford people who remained in the Gainesville Florida area were displaced by migrants from southern Georgia sometime in the seventh century.

The town of Gainesville Florida was incorporated in 1869 and chartered as a city in 1907.

Gainesville Florida's climate is defined as humid subtropical, with tropical-like summers, warm to hot shoulder seasons, and mild winters.

Gainesville Florida heavily promoted solar power by creating the first feed-in tariff in the United States.

City's economic engine is the University of Gainesville Florida, which is by far the largest employer in the area and brings in a large amount of state and federal money.

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Greater Gainesville Florida is home to many startups with over 160 high growth enterprises.

Gainesville Florida is home to dozens of organizations that support startups along their entire continuum of growth.

The University of Gainesville Florida is a major financial boost to the community, and UF athletic events, including SEC football games, create hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional revenue.

Gainesville Florida's schools began desegregating in the 1960s and its high schools were integrated from 1968 to 1970, the "colored" schools having been either closed or integrated.

Gainesville Florida is served by US 441 and nearby US 301, which give a direct route to Jacksonville, Ocala, and Orlando.

At one time, Gainesville Florida had railroad lines extending in six directions and was served by several depots, one of which, the Seaboard Air Line Depot, survives and has been restored and lies in a city park.

Service into Gainesville Florida ended at the end of April, 1971 at Amtrak's creation.

Since 1989, Gainesville has been home to Theatre Strike Force, the University of Florida's premier improv troupe.

Gainesville Florida has a number of ordinances targeting the homeless, including an anti-panhandling measure and one prohibiting sleeping outdoors on public property.

Gainesville Florida is renowned in recreational drug culture for "Gainesville Florida Green", a particularly potent strain of marijuana.

Between 1987 and 1998, Gainesville Florida had a very active rock music scene, with Hollywood star River Phoenix having the local club Hardback Cafe as his main base.

Gainesville Florida is still known for its strong music community and was named "Best Place to Start a Band in the United States" by Blender magazine in March 2008.

Gainesville Florida Gators is the varsity team of the University of Gainesville Florida, competing in the Southeastern Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 1933.

Roughly since the 2006 founding of Grooveshark, a Gainesville Florida-based music streaming service, Gainesville Florida has seen an increase in the number of technology-based startup companies founded and developed in the city, particularly the downtown area.

Thirteen radio stations are licensed to operate in the city of Gainesville Florida—five AM stations, six commercial FM stations, and two low-power non-commercial FM stations.

Gainesville Florida is the 162nd-largest television market in the nation, as measured by Nielsen Media Research.

Gainesville Florida has one cable television station called Community 12TV, which is carried on area COX systems.