When was gainesville texas founded

South Texas. Texas Hill Country. West Texas. Texas Ghost Towns. Texas Counties. Home ». All Rights Reserved. California for a Chamber building. Bell Telephone Company to make a survey with the idea of installing the dial system in Gainesville.

A good highway system of roads had been planned and completed. The housing area of Howzeville had been secured which had relieved our serious housing shortage.

The USO building was acquired for a Community center. Consent was obtained from the Federal government to permit former land owners to repurchase their former holdings as well as to purchase one or more barracks to reconstruct their homes and farm buildings.

A National Guard Unit company was secured for Gainesville. The chamber purchased the land for National Supply awaiting their arrival to Gainesville. The paving of Highway 82 East was set to be completed by fall with plans to then focus on Highway 82 West. A Contract for the paving of FM51 5 miles south of Dexter are set.

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Tell us if you know the precise location of this item. In the lower-left corner of map below, select either the pin or the box. Drop a pin or drag to create a new rectangle. Zoom and Pan the map as needed. Description Although many years have elapsed, the Santa Fe's Gainesville, Texas passenger station built in still retains a well preserved appearance in June of Who People and organizations associated with either the creation of this photograph or its content.

Creator We've been unable to identify the creator s of this photograph. Donor Blanton, Burt C. Administrator, First Christian Church. Provided By Museum of the American Railroad Located in the North Texas town of Frisco, the Museum of the American Railroad is a nonprofit organization committed to sharing the instrumental role the railroads played in Texan and American history.

Although Gainesville was made a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, Indian attacks stunted the community's growth. During the Civil War, the Great Hanging, a controversial trial and hanging of suspected Union loyalists brought the new town to the attention of the state and came close to ripping the county apart.

The Great Hanging was a tragic chapter in the history of America's most tragic war. The episode was one of those normal events in an abnormal era. The hangings were symptomatic of an entire nation torn apart by a bloody civil war, a time when death was as common as dirt all across the country, and of a people temporarily governed by fear and hatred; however the people of Gainesville still persevered.

In the decade after the war, the county seat had its first period of extended growth, catalyzed by the expansion of the cattle industry in Texas. Gainesville, only seven miles from the Oklahoma border, became a supply point for cowboys driving herds north to Kansas.

Two major cattle trails, the Chisolm Trail and the Shawnee Trail flanked Cooke County, and the cowboys would roar into Gainesville to visit the saloons, get supplies, gamble, and visit the "soiled doves. An important gateway into the great grassland empire of Texas, Gainesville became an important hub of commerce and one of the most significant cattle towns in the state.

When the last of the major Indian raids occurred in , the county population began to increase with the arrival of the "Katy" railroad in Cattle money also financed the construction of the new county courthouse in and provided much of the tax revenue to support local schools and the building of public roads.

Within 20 years, the population increased from a few hundred to more than 2, Gainesville was incorporated on February 17, and by was established as a commercial and shipping point for area ranchers and farmers. In the late s two factors drastically altered the historic landscape of North Central Texas.

The first of these was barbed wire. In , Henry B. 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.