Gainesville, Texas

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Gainesville is a city in Cooke County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,538 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Cooke CountyGR6.

1920 Olympic Champion Charlie Paddock was born in Gainesville, as was Frank Buck.

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[edit] Geography

Location of Gainesville, Texas

Gainesville is located at 33°37′49″N, 97°8′25″W (33.630360, -97.140323)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 44.1 km² (17.0 mi²). 44.0 km² (17.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.18%) is water.

[edit] Demographics

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 15,538 people, 5,969 households, and 4,005 families residing in the city. The population density was 352.9/km² (914.1/mi²). There were 6,423 housing units at an average density of 145.9/km² (377.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 80.77% White, 6.00% African American, 1.33% Native American, 0.55% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 9.09% from other races, and 2.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.47% of the population.

There were 5,969 households out of which 33.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.2% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families. 29.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.13.

In the city the population was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 88.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,571, and the median income for a family was $37,137. Males had a median income of $30,480 versus $21,459 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,154. About 17.0% of families and 20.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.5% of those under age 18 and 12.7% of those age 65 or over.

[edit] Education

The City of Gainesville is served by the Gainesville Independent School District. Gainesville High School boasts a 15.3 student to teacher ratio[citation needed]. Enrollment figures for the 2005-2006 school year stand at 800 students attending the high school. On the state administered reading proficiency tests, GISD grades 10 and 11 scored substantially lower than the state average[citation needed].

The main campus for North Central Texas College is located on the west side of Gainesville.

[edit] Things of note

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Gainesville is home to an impressive courthouse with an octagonal rotunda topped by stained glass, erected in 1910, and under renovation since late 2005. The courthouse grounds feature one of the most impressive Confederate soldier memorials in Texas, erected in the early 20th century by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), topped by a Confederate soldier facing northward, and bearing a poetic inscription honoring the Southland's fallen heroes. Other memorials on the courthouse grounds honor veterans of other U.S. wars.

The presence of these monuments praising the Confederacy is ironic, given that Gainesville was the site of a notorious massacre of Texans by Confederate forces. The Confederacy had promised that Texans would not be drafted to fight the United States outside Texas. When it broke this promise Confederate officials feared that Cooke County, known to be loyal to the United States, would be the site of protests and would possibly secede back to America as several counties in Tennessee already had[citation needed].

Confederate soldiers rounded up over 200 Texans, and on October 1, 1862 hanged 42 after a mock trial. This event sparked a reign of terror in which dozens of Texans suspected of being loyal to America were lynched by Confederate soldiers[citation needed].

Gainesville is the location of Camp Sweeney, a summer camp for children with diabetes.

Gainesville was once home to Camp Howze, one of the largest infantry replacement training centers during World War II.

Gainesville is also home to a large outlet mall (The Gainesville Factory Shops) attracting visitors from north Texas as well as southern Oklahoma. Gainesville also boasts state championships in High School Football (3A-I 2003) and High School Basketball (3A 2002).

On Germany's biggest commercial tv station there is a weekly docu-soap about a family, who emigrated to Gainesville, Texas in 2004. They are going to open a Bed & Breakfast at Moss Lake in 2007.

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