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Gainesville is served by the Gainesville Regional Airport.
Gainesville was originally formed along the Florida Railroad Company's line stretching from Cedar Key, Florida to Fernandina Beach, Florida as part of a route eventually carrying cargo from New Orleans, Louisiana to New York.
Gainesville is an expensive town in which to live—rent rates tend to be high off campus, although the restaurants near the University of Florida are cheap.
Gainesville prospered as agricultural activity increased along the rich valleys of the Oconee and Chattahoochee rivers, where abundant corn fattened livestock for the citizens' tables and allowed for homemade production of corn whiskey.
In the late 1850s, as the division between the North and the South deepened, most residents of Gainesville and Hall County were opposed to secession.
A monument to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, located in the interior yard of Gainesville's county-municipal complex, commemorates the president's visits immediately after the tragedy and celebrates the dedication of the 1938 courthouse and city hall.
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