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Gainesville High School (GHS) is a high school in Gainesville, Florida, United States. There were 1,890 students attending it in 2015. There were 1,890 students attending it in 2015. The current principal is Daniel Ferguson, who joined the GHS staff in July 2022.
Josiah T. Walls. Josiah Thomas Walls (December 30, 1842 – May 15, 1905) was a United States congressman who served three terms in the U.S. Congress between 1871 and 1876. He was one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida.
A jail was built in 1857, and a well was dug and a pump for public use installed the same year. Property values rose quickly. A city block on the edge of town purchased for $14.57 in 1857 sold for $100 in 1858. The railroad from Fernandina reached Gainesville in 1859, and connected to Cedar Key the next year.
Website. thehipp .org. NRHP reference No. 79000659 [1] Added to NRHP. July 10, 1979 [2] 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 ...
Shands left the university before graduating and began selling agricultural chemicals for the Standard Fertilizer Company He married Catherine London Hawkins of Jacksonville, Florida on June 12, 1912, and then moved to Alabama. He later returned to Gainesville and started the Gainesville Poster-Advertising Company in 1928.
Lincoln High School was a public high school for African American students in Gainesville, Florida during the segregation era. It replaced the Union Academy, founded with support from the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867. [1] Lincoln High School was built in 1923 at Northwest 7th Avenue. [2] When it was first constructed it only served grades 1–11 ...
Alachua County (/ ə ˈ l æ tʃ u ə / ⓘ 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. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida since 1906, when the campus opened with 106 students.
Oak Hall was founded in 1970, the same year that Gainesville finished desegregation of their high schools. Founded by Drs. Billy Brashear and Harry L. Walker, the school was open to all "without regard to race, creed or color", but had a $1,100 tuition.