The Town of Gainesville was established in 1814 from part of the Town of Warsaw. The original name was Hebe.. The Town of Gainesville is the birthplace of David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University.
Osceola County (/ÉsiËoÊlÉ/ , o-si-OH-lÉ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 268,685. Its county seat is Kissimmee.
Florida Osceola, leader of the Seminoles Osceola in Florida The story of Osceola, a Seminole Indian, may not be well known, but his brave attempts to remain in Florida and fight the U.S. government are well documented. Osceola was one of the ...ez_ldquo~Osceola~ez_rdquo~ was the white man's distortion of his adult Indian name, Asiyahola, which meant Black Drink Crier, alluding to a caffeinated drink used in ceremonial purification of the body and spirit. Early days. Little Owl was born in 1803, near the border of Alabama and Georgia.