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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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POW Camp and Infantry Training near Gainesville |
Gainesville First Baptist Church in 1909
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Gainesville
ChroniclesThe
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
Tourist Information 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/ |
Cotton
Gin in Gainesville, 1910
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
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