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Gainesville (City of Texas the county-seat)

a city of Texas, the county-seat of Cooke co. It is on the Trinity river and on the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads. It is situated in an important agricultural and stock-raising region and its industries include iron foundries, machine shops, cottonseed oil works, flour mills, pressed brick works, etc. There are handsome public buildings, including a city hall, a city park, a library, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,624; (1920) 8,648.