Gainesville, Fla. – The Living History Farm at Morningside Nature Center now provides a cell phone tour to visitors. Visitors to the farm can pick up a cell phone brochure to guide them through the farm, the brochure provides a local telephone number and a tour stop number for visitors to enter into their cell phone. When the tour stop number is entered they will hear information about that specific item, building or location. When a visitor is ready to move to another location they simply enter the next tour stop number. The tours are free; however, cell phone minutes do apply.

The tour offers visitors a way to discover what life was like in 1870 on a single family farm in north central Florida while enjoying the lush grounds and the farm structures. The cell phone tour explains the sugar cane and syrup process, as well as describing uses for each of the buildings and animals found at the farm. 

The Living History Farm is located at Morningside Nature Center, Gainesville’s premier nature park. Visitors can also enjoy Morningside’s more than six miles of trails that wind through sandhill, flatwoods and cypress domes. Morningside also boasts a spectacular wildflower display and a chance to see diverse  wildlife.

The website www.gainesvillecelltours.com provides a menu of cell phone tour options in Gainesville/Alachua County including: Historic Gainesville, the town of Evinston, Dudley Farm Historic State Park, O‘Leno State Park and Paynes Prairie State Preserve. The website also has a video overview of the cell phone tour program, a downloadable guide and a podcast for each of the tours.

The cell phone tour program is coordinated by the City of Gainesville, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs and is funded through Alachua County Tourism Tax dollars. More information about Gainesville’s cell phone tours is available at www.gainesvillecelltours.com.

Gainesville is located in North Central Florida between two of Florida’s main thoroughfares, Interstate 75 and US Highway 441, is equidistant from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean just two hours north of Orlando and 1-1/2 hours southwest of Jacksonville.