Gainesville, Florida

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Gainesville

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Gainesville.

13 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Gainesville, FL · Local history

  Gainesville’s story is one of reinvention, etched into the landscape of north central Florida. The very ground beneath the city, part of the vast Floridan Aquifer, has always shaped its destiny. Long before the city…

• Seagle Building · 0.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  This spot mattered because it was a symbol of Gainesville's growth in the roaring twenties. The Seagle Building, built in 1926, originally known as the Hotel Kelley and later the Dixie Hotel, was designed by Rudolph…

• Mary Phifer McKenzie House · 0.3 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine horse-drawn carriages clip-clopping down University Avenue, because at the turn of the century, this spot was one of the grandest homes in Gainesville. The Mary Phifer McKenzie House, now the Sweetwater Branch…

• Matheson House (Gainesville, Florida) · 0.3 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  You're approaching a place deeply connected to Gainesville's founding families: the Matheson House. In 1867, James Douglas Matheson and his wife, Augusta Florida Steele Matheson, built this house. Augusta's father,…

• Thomas Center · 0.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine Gainesville's elite arriving at a grand hotel, all thanks to one family's dream. In 1910, William Reuben Thomas began building his private home, Sunkist Villa. Years later, in 1928, he transformed it into Hotel…

• Old WRUF Radio Station · 1.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Tune into the past at what was once the site of the Old WRUF Radio Station, where the University of Florida's broadcasting legacy began. The building, located at the corner of Museum Road and Newell Drive, was added to…

• Florida Gymnasium · 1.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Step inside 'Alligator Alley,' where generations of University of Florida athletes trained and competed. The Florida Gymnasium opened in 1949 as a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena. For over thirty years, it was the home…

• Boulware Springs Water Works · 2.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  This unassuming spring is where Gainesville, Florida, was essentially born. Back in 1854, citizens gathered here to vote on creating a new town. Their goal? To replace Newnansville as the Alachua County seat. This…

• Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park · 5.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Descend into a dramatic sinkhole where a unique ecosystem thrives, and Native American legends whisper of a devilish mill. For centuries, people have been drawn to this geological oddity. The 120-foot deep, 500-foot…

• Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park · 5.8 mi · Historical Marker

  A massive 120-foot-deep sinkhole near Gainesville with a lush rainforest ecosystem at its bottom, formed thousands of years ago.

• Haile Homestead · 7.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine living in a house where the walls whisper secrets – literally! That's the story of the Haile Homestead. Between the 1850s and the early 1900s, members of the Haile family and their friends wrote over 12,500…

• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park · 14.2 mi · Historical Marker

  The rural homestead where Rawlings wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek, preserved as a Florida cracker farmstead.