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.
Definition of Osceola in English: (C.1804â38), leader of the Seminole Indians; born Billy Powell. Resisting all government efforts to remove his people from their homeland in Florida, he led them in the Seminole Wars, which began in 1835. He was captured in 1837 while bearing a flag of truce.