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Founded in 1850, the city of Gainesville was established on a 40-acre (16 ha) tract of land donated by Mary E. Clark. [7] City residents called their new community "Liberty", which proved short-lived, as Liberty, Texas, already existed.
Though the law passed originally in 1917, it was repealed. With the newer and reworked Texas County Library Law of 1919, the law was petitioned in 1920 and led to a county library being established. [8] Later, in 1921, the Gainesville Carnegie Public Library was renamed to the Cooke County Free Library in the spirit of the new library law. [3] [5]
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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. It is named for William Gordon Cooke, a soldier during the Texas Revolution. It is a part of the Texoma region.
East Texas Elephant Experience, Cut And Shoot; East Texas Zoo and Gator Park, Grand Saline; El Paso Zoo, El Paso; Ellen Trout Zoo, Lufkin; Exotic Resort Zoo, Johnson City; Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth; Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose; Frank Buck Zoo, Gainesville; Franklin Drive Thru Safari, Franklin; Gator Country Adventure Park, Beaumont
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 the Texas Education Agency. [2]
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", [2] the highest rating schools can earn on the State of Texas' accountability system.
Known units which trained at Gainesville were the 8th and 426th Reconnaissance Groups. They flew a variety of aircraft, including the P-38 Lightning (F-5), P-51 Mustang (F-6), B-24 Liberator (F-7) and P-40 Warhawk .