GAINESVILLE, a city in the interior of Florida, U.S.A., 70m. S.W. of Jacksonville; the county seat of Alachua county. It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Jacksonville, Gaines ville and Gulf and the Seaboard Air Line railways. The popula tion in 1925 (State census) was 8,466 (4o% negroes) and in 1930 it was 10,465 by the Federal census of that year. Gainesville is a shipping point for garden produce, citrus and other fruits, and other agricultural products; the centre of the new tung-oil industry of America, with over 1,000,000 Chinese tung trees; a health and pleasure resort, and the seat of the University of Florida, opened at Lake City in 1905 and moved in 1906 to its present site (953 acres). The Florida Agricultural college (opened in 1884 at Lake City) and the Florida Agricultural Experiment station (established 1887) are part of the university. There are many points of natural beauty and interest in the vicinity, including the Alachua Sink, Payne's Prairie, Newman's Lake and the Devil's Millhopper, and 15m. west of the city are rich phosphate mines. Gainesville is in the midst of the famous Seminole country. It was settled about 1850, named after Gen. E. P. Gaines, incor porated as a town in 1869, and as a city in 1907.