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The Gainesville Daily Register is newspaper published in Gainesville, Texas, on Tuesdays and Fridays. It has been published continuously since 1890. [2] Texas Gov. George W. Bush holds a copy of the Gainesville Daily Register during a visit to Gainesville, Texas, circa 1998. The newspaper covers primarily Cooke County, Texas, and parts of Love ...
GNIS feature ID. 1373791 [4] Website. www .gainesville .tx .us. Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Cooke County, Texas, United States. [5] Its population was 17,394 at the 2020 census. [6] It is part of the Texoma region and is an important Agri-business center.
41 suspected Unionists. The Great Hanging at Gainesville was the execution by hanging of 41 suspected Unionists (men loyal to the United States) in Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862 during the American Civil War. Confederate troops shot two additional suspects trying to escape. Confederate troops captured and arrested some 150–200 men in ...
Cooke County Library (1963–present) After voters agreed to a bond for a new library building, construction began in 1962. Cooke County Library opened its doors on June 29, 1963, in Gainesville, Texas at 200 South Weaver and to this day is the current site of the library. [3]
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Texas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century) "News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Texas". DMOZ.
Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railway Company (GH&W) was chartered on July 23, 1886, to build a rail line from Gainesville in Cooke County, Texas, to Seymour in Baylor County, Texas, [1] a distance of 130 miles (210 km). The line was to cross Montague, Clay, and Wichita Counties.
The Gainesville Independent School District is a public school district in Cooke County, Texas, United States, based in Gainesville, Texas.For the 2015-2016 school year, the academic performance report issued by the Texas Education Agency for GISD declared the school district as having "met standard", the highest rating schools can earn on the State of Texas' accountability system.
Gainesville High School (Texas) / 33.6045; -97.1615. Gainesville High School is a public high school located in Gainesville, Texas, United States. It is part of the Gainesville Independent School District located in north central Cooke County and classified as a 4A-Division 1 school by the UIL. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by ...