GAINESVILLE, a city of Texas, U.S.A., 65m. N. of Fort Worth and Dallas, near the Red river ; the county-seat of Cooke county. It Is on Federal highway 77, and is served by the Missouri Kansas-Texas and the Santa Fe railways. The population was 8,915 in 193o. The Muenster oilfield is 17m. W., and the region produces cotton, grain and live stock. The city is an important shipping point, and has an oil refinery and various other manu facturing industries. The State training school for girls is located here. Gainesville was settled about 1851, and named after Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849), who commanded the department of the south-west during the Mexican War. It was chartered as a city in 1879.