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GAINESVILLE, TEXAS

Cooke County Seat, North Central Texas
Interstae 35 Highway 82
67 miles N of Dallas
22 miles E of Saint Jo
33 miles N of Denton
33 miles W of Sherman

Population: 15,536 (2000) 14,256 (1990)

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Gainesville TX Depot
Gainesville Depot
Photos courtesy Mike Price, 2007
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History in a Pecan shell

1840: Peters Colony attracts first settlers by offering land grants
1845: Fort Fitzhugh established 3.5 miles Southeast of the future town
1850: Town established on 40 acres donated by Mary Clark
1851: post office is granted
1858: Gainesville becomes a stop on the Butterfield Stagecoach Line from Missouri to California
1862: The "Great Hanging" incident where 40 men were lynched (and 2 shot) for being Union loyalists
1873: Town is incorporated
1886: The Santa Fe Railroad comes through Gainesville
1915: Gainesville's population reaches nearly 7,500 people
1942: Camp Howze opens as an Infantry training facility - population doubles


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Gainesville Landmarks / Attractions /Images

Cooke County Courthouse

Morton Museum of Cooke County
In the restored firehouse - 210 S. Dixon

Camp Howze
WWII POW Camp and Infantry Training near Gainesville

Elm Bridge
Red River Bridge
Gainesville High School
Gainesville East School
Turner Hotel
Then & Now
Gainesville TX St Paul Episcopal Church
St. Paul Episcopal Church
Photo courtesy Mike Price, 2007
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Gainesville  Texas First Baptist Church in 1909
Gainesville First Baptist Church in 1909
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Victorian Architecture
Photo courtesy Mike Price, 2007
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Gainesville Chronicles

  • The 1862 Hangings at Gainesville Texas by W.T. Block
    Certainly one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War occurred in Gainesville, Texas in Oct. 1862, when 40 men, suspected of Union sympathies, were hanged...
  • Circus by Mike Cox
    Being a newspaper editor always has been something of a high wire act. But for Peggy O’Neal, it was easy...
  • Gainesville Native Sons

  • Bring 'Em Back Alive: Frank Buck Archie P. McDonald
    Before the late Steve Ervin wrestled his first crocodile, before Jane Goodall learned to communicate with chimps, before swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller personified Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jungle Jim in movies and serials, and before John Wayne performed in a film titled "Hatari!" about a professional trapper of animals for zoos, Frank Buck captured American and international audiences with tales of his adventures doing just those kinds of things everywhere on the planet...
  • "My Blue Heaven: Gene Austin" by Archie P. McDonald
    Gainesville, in Cooke County, gained a native son named Eugene Lucas on June 24,1900. Lucas became one of the nation's most popular entertainers during the 1930s, but by then he used his stepfather's name-Austin...

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  • Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce:
    P.O. Box 518 101
    South Culberson Street, Gainesville, TX 76241
    Toll Free: 888-585-4468 Local: 940-665-2831
    http://www.gainesvilletexas.org/
  • City of Gainsville
    200 S. Rusk Street, Gainesville, Texas 76240
    940-668-4500
    Website: http://www.gainesville.tx.us/
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    Cotton Gin in Gainesville, 1910
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