Historical and Educational Attractions
This page lists attractions of historical, cultural, or educational significance in the Gainesville, Florida area. Listings may include historical homes, battlefields, forts, monuments, famous birthplaces, and other places of historical significance, as well educational attractions such as planetariums.
Located in the heart of downtown Gainesville, the Matheson History Museum is home to the 1867 Mathes ...
The A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center features a permanent exhibit on the community leader a ...
The 19th-century waterworks building, located at Boulware Springs, once provided the water supply fo ...
The Cade Museum's exhibits, educational programs, and Creativity Labs encourage learners of all ages ...
Step back in time to feel what it's like to plow a field, plant a crop, bring the harvest in, mark t ...
Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1856. The City of Gainesville assumed ownership in 1944 and it ...
All the permanent exhibits are kid-friendly and many have hands-on features just for kids. Check the ...
Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation. In 1854 Thomas Evans and Serena Chesnut Haile moved ...
The Kika Silva Pla Planetarium seats 60 guests beneath a 34 ft Spitz projection dome and is equipped ...
The park is located about 1.3 miles east of Hawthorne on Route 20. Historical Cemetery Horseshoe ...
Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinna ...
Located in the heart of downtown Gainesville, the Matheson History Museum is home to the 1867 Mathes ...
The Micanopy Historical Society Museum features displays showing area and town history, from the ear ...
The Micanopy Native American Heritage Preserve is a 16-acre site dedicated to the native peoples of ...
Gainesville’s premier nature park, Morningside Nature Center, is one of the last remaining examples ...
Sweetwater Branch Park is a linear park, a three-block stretch of trees and creek that borders downt ...
In 1972 when a rezoning request went before the city’s planning board to raze the hotel, the neighbo ...
The Department of Astronomy operates an on-campus Teaching Observatory for educational and public pr ...
Small playground next to a historic red caboose that kids can go inside to explore.
