Gainesville’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Gainesville. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Gainesville was once a changing point for stagecoach horses on the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike. In earlier times, the village that became known as "Gainesville" actually had two other names, though only briefly. In the colonial era, the region was known as the "Middle Grounds", a reference to its location between Broad Run and Bull Run.
In the early 1800s, Samuel Love of Buckland Hall started work on the Warrenton–Alexandria Turnpike. In the hamlet where the turnpike passed through the Middle Grounds, a new stable was erected for stagecoach drivers to switch horses. Other businesses followed, and the settlement became known as New Stable.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gainesville’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMonument on Battlefield of Grovet…, 1862: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Gainesville
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1 historic place in Gainesville
1 place in Gainesville is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Monument on Battlefield of Groveton (1862) and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.