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Hippodrome State Theatre. The Hippodrome Theatre (locally known as The Hippodrome or The Hipp) is a regional professional theatre in downtown Gainesville, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1973 by local actors and was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979. [2][3]
Designated. December 1974. Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park, encompassing a 21,000-acre (85 km 2) savanna in Alachua County, Florida lying between Micanopy and Gainesville. It is also a U.S. National Natural Landmark. It is crossed by both I-75 and U.S. 441 (which has a scenic outlook ramp).
1,950,000 sq ft (181,000 m 2) Website. shopatbutler.com. Butler Plaza is a large retail complex located in southwest Gainesville, Florida. It is the largest retail power center in Florida and among the largest in the southeast United States. Built on the former site of Stengel Airport, which closed in 1971, [1][2] the shopping center currently ...
Designated. December 1974. Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park is a Florida state park located in the north-westernmost part of Gainesville, Florida, off County Road 232, also known as NW 53rd Avenue and Millhopper Road, northwest of the University of Florida. The park is maintained by the Florida Park Service, a division of the Florida ...
GNIS feature ID. 0282874 [ 6 ] Website. gainesvillefl.gov. Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. [ 7 ] It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022.
Alachua County, Florida. Florida. (2020) Alachua County (/ əˈlætʃuə / ⓘ ə-LATCH-oo-ə) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. [ 1 ] The county seat is Gainesville, [ 2 ] the home of the University of Florida.
Royal Park Bridge. Coordinates: 26.70597°N 80.04644°W. Royal Park Bridge in 2014 with its spans raised. The Royal Park Bridge is a bascule bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, linking Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, Florida. It gained widespread attention in February 2022 when a woman fell to her death as its movable spans rose.
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.