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The merchants of Gainesville reaped considerable benefits from the passing cattle drives. Within 20 years, its population increased from a few hundred to more than 2,000. Gainesville was incorporated on February 17, 1873, and by 1890 was established as a commercial and shipping point for area ranchers and farmers.
Cooke County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.At the 2020 census, its population was 41,668. [1] [2] The county seat is Gainesville. [3]The county was founded in 1848 and organized the next year.
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The first city library in Gainesville, Texas was located in a building known as the Joe Townsley building on North Dixon Street in 1903. The XLI Club added the first collection of 400 books and it was run by Sue McKemie, she was a volunteer that offered to keep the library open one day a week. [1]
Between Gainesville and Henrietta, only the town of Saint Jo existed. Other towns vied for access to the railroad, such as Montague and Seymour; [2] however, land for the right-of-way was offered across northern portions of Cooke, Montague, and Clay Counties, and the railway produced new towns along the route, to include Myra, Muenster, Bonita, Nocona, and Belcherville, Texas.
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