Clifton Colored School

Before the Clifton Schoolhouse was built, Butler Campbell and Andrew Jackson's children were home schooled by a black teacher, Mr. Mahaffey. The teacher was paid five dollars for each student after examination by the County School Superintendent. Any locality claiming ...

City Point Community Church

Known as City Point, this area was settled shortly after the Civil War by Confederate veterans, citrus grove workers, northern winter residents, and consumptives seeking a healthy climate. By early 1885, a board of trustees was formed consisting of William ...

Museum of Florida History

The Museum of Florida History collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets evidence of past and present cultures in Florida. As the state history museum, it focuses on artifacts unique to the role Florida has played in America's history.

Florida's First People ...

Florida Department of State, R.A. Gray Building

The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. Among the collections are the Spanish Land Grants, the confirmed ...

Turpentine Industry

The naval stores industry was important to maritime powers worldwide. Pine tar and pitch were used to seal wooden ships and protect sails and rigging. When settlers came to America in Florida (1565), in Virginia (1607) and in Massachusetts (1620) ...

Thomas Gilbert Pearson

Thomas Gilbert Pearson was an ornithologist, college professor, and world leader of the bird preservation movement. Pearson grew up in Archer, where he collected bird skins and eggs and taught himself ornithology. To pay for his schooling at Guilford College ...

The Law School Burial Mound

100 yards west is an aboriginal burial mound built circa A.D. 1000 by Alachua tradition peoples, ancestors of the Potano Indians who lived in Alachua County in the 16th and 17th centuries. Initially several individuals were buried in a central ...

Spanish Cattle Ranching

Present-day Gainesville was the center of a large Spanish cattle ranching industry, founded on the labor of native Timuqua Indians, during the 1600s. LaChua, largest of the ranches, was a Spanish corruption of an Indian word, and in turn was ...

Roper Park - Old City Park

Roper Park is the original site of the parade grounds (in front of this site) and barracks (behind this site) for the East Florida Seminary, a non-sectarian educational institute and a forerunner of the University of Florida. James H. Roper ...

Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church

Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on July 16, 1867, with the Reverend Isaac Davis serving as the first pastor. The Board of Trustees of the oldest black congregation in Gainesville purchased the lot on which the present church ...