Five Experience You’ll Find Only in Gainesville
If you’re a Gainesville newbie, you’ll find no end of experiences that are unique to your new hometown.
Some are big and some are small, but all are available only in Gainesville and Alachua County. Gainesville anchors the inland portion of north-central Florida, where natural beauty and resources are abundant, and so are some of the man-made ones.
Here’s our list of five things you’ll find only in Gainesville.
The Gainesville Solar Walk
Bring the kids along for this one. It’s nearly a mile of sidewalk marked by sculpted columns that portray the solar system as a four-billion-to-one scale model. It includes the sun, all planets, a few stars, and is the work of artist Elizabeth Indianos. Tim Mallas designed each column’s bronze plaque.
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Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park
This is a National Natural Landmark, but one you probably didn’t know about until now. Devil’s Millhopper is a sizable sinkhole — 120 feet and 500 feet wide — that contains lush, tropical vegetation. The visitors’ center will fill you in on particulars, but expect a couple of nice hikes, one a half-mile trail around the sinkhole’s rim, and the other a 232-step boardwalk that winds to the bottom. Fossils have been found here and water trickles down the sinkhole’s walls.
Devil’s Millhopper is located at 4732 Millhopper Road in Gainesville.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
The circa-1930s home of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this state park preserves Rawling’s slice of north-central Florida that inspired her books — The Yearling and Cross Creek. All buildings on the property, as well as gardens and an orange grove, are completely restored. Guided tours are available.
This state park is located on S. County 325, in Cross Creek (near the town of Micanopy).
Historic Haile
Sand in between my toes, tide washing up just against my feet, and with a coconut in my
Despite the overall opinion of our class, I enjoyed Hugh Willoughby’s Across the Everglades. The short history he provided and the description of his journey through mangroves and saw grass was both enlightening and entertaining. He offered insight into the historical part of Florida that we, in 2004, will never know of by first hand experience. Willoughby’s journal was also the perfect handbook for an Everglades class canoe trip. From the intricate metaphors he weaves into his facts to the influence of opinion behind those facts, Willoughby’s work captures the minds of his readers.
Cashin, Edward J., ed. A wilderness still the cradle of nature: frontier Georgia. Savannah: Beehive, 1994. Print.
Outdoors-river widens to a broad stream, low mud flaps on one side, pelicans, native pines, high creeper covered walls.
To any one wondering what it’s like to live in Miami, the simple answer would have to be marvelous. Needless to say, it’s impossible to describe what it’s like to live in such an eminent city with just one word. Miami is famous for its beautiful beaches and its Art Deco architecture but most importantly it considered the melting pot of the United States. Living in such a diverse and illustrious city certainly has its perks. The atmosphere is vibrant. The weather is wonderful year round. The city is alive while the suburbs are roaring and growing.
Rielly, Edward J. “Out of the Landscape of His Past.” Journal of American Cultuer 16.3 (1993): 47.
The national park also employs hundreds of Floridians. Because Florida relies so heavily on the tourism industry, there are also many different activities offered around the Everglades area. Many tourists can enjoy airboat rides into the wetlands or alligator and crocodile sight-seeing boat tours. Within the last five years, tourists have collectively spent over $500,000,000 in the areas surrounding the Everglades National Park. The money spent contributes to local businesses in the counties surrounding the Everglades. Just a few of the counties are Collier, Broward, and
Walker, Alice. (1974). “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Ways of Reading. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, pp. 694-701.
Towering over 1250 feet above the beautiful Belle Fourche River stands a magnificent structure in northeast Wyoming. The shape of this structure is that of a huge tree stump. The base of this structure is over 1000 feet in diameter, while the top tapers to a 275 foot diameter. It stands 870 vertical feet from base to top, the tallest such formation in the U.S. This amazing structure has an incredible history and its legends are told to this day. It has been used for fame and fortune, religion and rituals, landmarks and legends, vacationers and visitors, movies and money, and many other things. It is beautiful and majestic, captivating and unique, feared and awed among those who have been in its presence. It has brought success to many and fate to some. The history this structure holds within itself is incredible. Its name sends fear to most and lives up to its reputation. May I introduce to you the one and only "Devils Tower." (5)
You’ll have a lot of visitors. Moving to Florida and you’ll never have to worry about having visitors again. Everyone will want to visit you, so find a place large enough to accompany them all.
I made a Model of the solar system, to show how the planets align in the Milky Way.
Florida has had quite an eventful history. It’s first human inhabitants are believed to be several Native American tribes, including The Panzacola, Chatot, Apalachicola, Apalachee, Timucua, Calusa, and the Matecumbe. These tribes occupied land all over Florida.
Archaeological research indicates that Florida had been inhabited for thousands of years before any European settlements. Of the many indigenous peoples, the largest known were the Ais, the Apalachee, the Calusa, the Timucua and the Tocobago tribes. Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish conquistador, named Florida in honor of his discovery of the land on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida, a Spanish term for the Easter season (Juan Ponce de León may not have been the first European to reach Florida; according to one report, at least one indigenous tribesman who he encountered in Florida in 1513 spoke Spanish.[6]). From that date forward, the land became known as "La Florida" , although from 1630 until the 19th century Tegesta (after the Tequesta tribe) was the name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in Joannes de Laet's History of the New World.[7]
Nicolaus Copernicus began constructing his version of the heliocentric model.He constructed constructed a fundamentally new view of our solar system. In his version of the model, he discovered that Celestial bodies do not all revolve around a single point, The earth is the center of the lunar sphere, All spheres (planets) revolve around the sun and no the earth, Starts are immovable and they seem to move because of the movement of the earth. In discovering all of this information, he finally made his own model. Copernicus placed Mercury and venus between the earth and sun, he was able to account for changes in their looks. He discovered that they are on the far side of the Sun, relative to Earth, they appear smaller but full. When they are on the same side of the Sun as the Earth, they appear larger and “horned” (crescent-shaped). With that ,this is the model
of the planets and stars you can see in the sky on the walls of