For Gainesville, it was the most powerful line ever drawn across a map of the Florida peninsula. It was drawn by David Levy Yulee in the 1850s and represented his steam-powered dream to build the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shawn Murphy was only a month into his retirement as a journalism professor when he made his first “Tom Petty pilgrimage” to ...

In 1884, Gainesville had a population of 4,000, one non-electrical fire truck, and water facilities that the Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. considered poor. Historians, lovers of architecture and owners ...

Before Tom Petty became a rock legend, he was just another kid roaming the streets of Gainesville and dreaming of making it big. Petty’s roots still run deep in the city, and now, thanks to Shawn ...