Gainesville, NY

Gainesville is an incorporated town in Wyoming County, New York. The 2000 census counted 2,333 residents. The town is named after General Edmund P. That mix gives Gainesville a clear local shape within New York, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Gainesville is on the eastern border of the county. Gainesville was established in 1814 from part of the Town of Warsaw. " Gainesville is the birthplace of David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University; as well as Ella Hawley Crossett, prominent activist in the women's suffrage movement.