Gainesville, Texas Gainesville, Texas Location of Gainesville, Texas Location of Gainesville, Texas Gainesville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Cooke County, Texas, United States. The populace was 16,002 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Texoma region.
3.1 Gainesville ISD Founded in 1850, the town/city of Gainesville was established on a 40-acre (16 ha) tract of territory donated by Mary E.
Clark. City inhabitants called their new improve "Liberty", which proved short-lived, as a Liberty, Texas, already existed.
It was suggested by one of the initial settlers of Cooke County, Colonel William Fitzhugh, that the town be titled after General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. Gaines, a United States general under whom Fitzhugh had served, had been sympathetic with the Texas Revolution.
During the Civil War, the Great Hanging at Gainesville, a controversial trial and hanging of 40 suspected Union loyalists, brought the new town to the consideration of the state and came close to ripping the county apart. In the decade after the Civil War, Gainesville had its first reconstructionof extended growth, catalyzed by the expansion of the cattle trade in Texas.
Gainesville, only 7 miles (11 km) from the Oklahoma border, became a supply point for cowboys driving herds north to Kansas.
The merchants of Gainesville reaped considerable benefits from the passing cattle drives.
Gainesville was incorporated on February 17, 1873, and by 1890 was established as a commercial and shipping point for region ranchers and farmers.
In the late 1870s two factors drastically altered the historic landscape of North Central Texas.
That autumn, he chose Gainesville as one of his initial distribution points for the newly invented barbed wire which his employer had patented the previous year.
On his first visit to Gainesville, he sold ten reels of the wire to the Cleaves and Fletcher hardware store the first spools of barbed wire ever sold in Texas.
The return of Amtrak on June 14, 1999, brought Gainesville back full circle to one of the initial sources of its expansion and success.
In the early 1990s, Gainesville had 600 businesses and a populace of 14,587.
Gainesville is home to a courthouse with an octagonal rotunda topped by stained glass, erected in 1910.
The courthouse in the center of Gainesville features black and white marbled interiors and a tall central atrium capped by a stained glass skylight under the tower." Gainesville was once home to Camp Howze, one of the biggest infantry replacement training centers amid World War II.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Gainesville ISD The town/city is served by the Gainesville Independent School District.
Gainesville Head Start (Toddlers/Pre-School) Gainesville Middle School (Grades 7 & 8) Gainesville High School (Grades 9, 10, 11, & 12) Furthermore, Gainesville High School boasts a 15.3 student to teacher ratio.
North Central Texas College, a five-campus improve college system, is headquartered in Gainesville, with the chief campus being positioned on the west side of town.
The college serves the North Texas area, with locations in Gainesville, Bowie, Corinth, Graham, and Flower Mound.
NCTC began as Gainesville Junior College in 1924, and because of this it has the distinct ion of being the earliest continuously directed improve college in the state of Texas.
Gainesville is the command posts of Zodiac Seats U.S.
Although gambling is not legal in Texas, Gainesville is generally associated by visitors/tourists with the pastime due to its close adjacency to Win - Star World Casino.
The casino, positioned less than 10 miles (16 km) north of Gainesville athwart the Red River in Thackerville, Oklahoma, has experienced exponential expansion over the last decade and is now considered the biggest casino in the world by total area. At over a mile long from end to end, the casino contains two hotel towers, a Global Events Center used for concerts and other affairs, and an 18-hole golf course.
Gainesville is home to a large supply mall (the Gainesville Factory Shops) which used to attract visitors from north Texas as well as southern Oklahoma.
Gainesville is positioned slightly east of the center of Cooke County at 33 37 49 N 97 8 25 W (33.630360, -97.140323). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.0 square miles (49.3 km2), of which 19.0 square miles (49.2 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.15%, is water. It is an exurb of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, 71 miles (114 km) north of the center of Dallas and 65 miles (105 km) north of the center of Fort Worth.
Gainesville usually appreciates sunny weather similar to the rest of Texas with the exception of a several natural disasters.
On June 18, 2007, thunderstorms moved through Gainesville, resulting in intense flooding.
Over 7 inches (180 mm) fell in Gainesville and close-by Sherman.
The Texas Youth Commission operates the Gainesville State School in an unincorporated region east of Gainesville. Gainesville has a zoo, a historic train station, and a 45-acre (180,000 m2) fully integrated soccer complex.
Gainesville hosts year-round adult softball for both men's league and coed league, a couple of seasons of sand volleyball, and a season of indoor basketball.
Gainesville Tennis Court Area Every April, Gainesville hosts recipients of the Medal of Honor with a formal banquet and citywide parade.
Depot Day: In October, Gainesville hosts a train themed carnival.
Gene Austin, noted singer/songwriter, was born in Gainesville TX, 06-24-1900.
German emigrants, now residing in Gainesville, became prominent on a several German TV-shows about emigration Russel Stegall AKA "Red Steagall"Singer/Songwriter, Born in Gainesville TX 12-22-1938 Gainesville is served by a tax-funded enhance hospital precinct which operates North Texas Medical Center, formerly known as Gainesville Memorial Hospital.
Gainesville Daily Register Gainesville gets over the air reception from Sherman-Ada which also includes OETA translator out of Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Gainesville has a historic rail depot.
Main article: Gainesville, Texas (Amtrak station) Gainesville is served by the Gainesville Municipal Airport, a publicly owned and supported airport that was established following the transfer of the Camp Howze Army Airfield to the City of Gainesville.
A general use airport, it also serves as the site of an annual balloon festival put on by the North Texas Medical Center Foundation.
Parts of Interstate 35 through Gainesville do not contain any frontage roads.
"The City of Gainesville Texas".
The City of Gainesville Texas.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Gainesville city, Texas".
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Gainesville (Texas).
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