GAINESVILLE, a city of Georgia, U.S.A.,' 54m. N.E. of Atlanta, near the Chattahoochee river; the county seat of Hall county. It is on Federal highways 19 and 129, and is served by the Gainesville and Northwestern, the Gainesville Midland and the Southern railways. The population was 6,272 in 1920 (24% negroes) and was 8,624 in 1930 by the Federal census of that year. The city lies at an altitude of 1,300ft. in the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge, and there are mineral springs in the vicinity. Its manufacturing industries include cotton mills with 2,700 looms and 128,000 spindles in 1928. It is the seat of Riverside military academy, and of Brenau college for women (Baptist), founded in 1878 as the Georgia Baptist seminary. Gainesville was settled about 1818 and incorporated as a city in 1821.