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GAINESVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cooke county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., about 6 m. S. of the Red See also:river, and about 6o m. N. of Fort See also:Worth. Pop. (189o) 6594; (1900) 7874 (1201 negroes and 269 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 7624. The city is served by the Gulf, See also:Colorado & See also:Santa Fe, and the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & Texas See also:railways, and by an interurban electric railway. Gainesville is a trading centre and See also:market for the surrounding See also:country, in which See also:cotton, grains, See also:garden See also:truck, See also:fruit and See also:alfalfa are grown and live-stock is raised; and a wholesale distributing point for the neighbouring region in Texas and See also:Oklahoma. The city has cotton-compresses and cotton-gins, and among its manufactures are cotton-See also:seed oil, See also:flour, See also: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 See also:honour of See also:General See also:Edmund See also:Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849), who served with distinction in the See also:War of 1812, becoming a brigadier-general in See also:March 1814 and receiving the See also:brevet of See also:major-general and the thanks of See also:Congress' for his See also:defence of Fort See also:Erie in See also:August 1814. Gaines took a prominent See also:part in the operations against the Seminoles in See also:Florida in 1817 (when he was in command of the See also:Southern Military See also:District) and in 1836 and during the Mexican War commanded the See also:department of the See also:South-See also:West, with headquarters at New See also:Orleans.

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