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Encyclopedia Britannica



GAINESVILLE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 388 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GAINESVILLE , a city and the county-seat of
Cooke
  county,
Texas
 , U.S.A., about 6 m. S. of the Red river, and about 6o m. N. of Fort Worth. Pop. (189o) 6594; (1900) 7874 (1201 negroes and 269 foreign-born); (191o) 7624. The city is served by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, and the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
  railways, and by an interurban electric railway. Gainesville is a trading centre and market for the surrounding country, in which
cotton
 , grains, garden truck, fruit and alfalfa are grown and live-stock is raised; and a wholesale distributing point for the neighbouring region in Texas and Oklahoma. The city has
cotton
 -compresses and cotton-gins, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, flour, cement blocks, pressed bricks, canned goods, foundry products, waggon-beds and creamery products. Gainesville was settled about 1851, was incorporated in 1873, and was chartered as a city in 1879; it was named in honour of General Edmund
Pendleton
  Gaines (1777-1849), who served with distinction in the War of 1812, becoming a brigadier-general in
March
  1814 and receiving the brevet of major-general and the thanks of Congress' for his defence of Fort Erie in August 1814. Gaines took a prominent part in the operations against the Seminoles in Florida in 1817 (when he was in command of the Southern Military
District
 ) and in 1836 and during the Mexican War commanded the department of the
South
 -West, with headquarters at New Orleans.


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