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Gainesville was founded in 1853 and named for Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a U.S. Army officer who served in the War of 1812 and as a commander during the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars. Gaines' surname also provided the inspiration for the naming of the cities of Gainesville in Georgia and Texas as well as Gainesboro, Tenn.

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