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UER Forum > Archived US: South > Anyone know gainsville well (Viewed 827 times)
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Anyone know gainsville well
< on 7/11/2007 5:51 PM >
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Who is our resident expert on gainsville?

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 1 on 7/11/2007 11:20 PM >
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1920 Olympic Champion Charlie Paddock was born in Gainesville.

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 2 on 7/12/2007 1:27 AM >
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i wanna go, there are a couple potential sites there, MAYBE a hospital, but thats according to google maps, and it showed 2 large abandoned hospitals in Denton, but they were both torn down in 2003 when they built the new one right off I-35.

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 3 on 7/12/2007 1:30 AM >
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Well uh! i got nothin

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 4 on 7/14/2007 9:34 PM >
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reason I am asking ........

In 1941 as we entered in WWII the US needed major military sites to rapidly train soldiers, Texas, due to the reasonably good weather as compared to alot of other areas and the vast openness of land, was selected for many of these bases. Lots of land was bought, and in some cases taken, and training bases popped up almost overnight. As the war escalated over the next few years, many of these bases also became POW camps for Germans, Japanese, Russians and Italians. IN some people were used as labor camps and some they were basically just housed. Almost as quickly as these were built, in 1944 and 45 as the war wound down and ended most of these were decommissioned and bulldozed. The land was typically offered back to the original owners or the state in some cases kept it for schools, hospitals and in some cases were kept open, most however were closed.

Several of these were along the Texas, Oklahoma Border such as Camp Howze Near Gainesville, Camp Maxey in Paris, A POW Camp near Princeton, and others.

These are from one of those I am researching and getting ready to go explore.

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Abandoned <?> Treatment plant
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Semi-active Water tower and plant
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Part of old hospital
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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 5 on 7/14/2007 10:07 PM >
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remains look interesting, if nothing else for the historical elements.

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 6 on 7/16/2007 3:47 AM >
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Perrin Field in Sherman housed 200 German POWs, they made/allowed them to work in the machine shop.

I believe I found a couple original barracks they were housed in and foundations of 4-5 more.

Interestingly enough some of these POWs stayed here after the war to become farmers and aircraft mechanics! Never to return to the Motherland.

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 7 on 7/16/2007 11:23 PM >
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Just a shot, but contact the veterans Administration in that area find out if anyone local was station there?

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 8 on 7/28/2007 9:13 AM >
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Posted by Arch-Image

These are from one of those I am researching and getting ready to go explore.




It's been two weeks, what else have you found out? Can't wait to see some pics.

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 9 on 8/22/2007 2:04 AM >
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There's a house on I-35 just south of Gainesville that is fascinating to me. There are cars in the driveway, and I have seen lights on at night, so I assume someone lives there, but it just LOOKS like it ought to be abandoned. Anyone know the one I mean?

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 10 on 8/22/2007 2:48 AM >
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yeah ive seen it too i know what you mean xD it just a wall of vines

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 11 on 8/25/2007 12:37 AM >
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Sorry I never responded to this, I did do some driving around and some more research but there is extremely little left, I may one day try to do some more and do post on it. Instead of being at my Oklahoma job were doing in Thackerville I have had to be filling in Houston for the last few weeks.

The house your talking about I stopped twice and knocked on the door but no one answered, I did take a few shots but they sorta sucked cause the trees block the view so much. I talked with some people up the road who said they thought some "teenagers" were squatting there. I have the address etc.. and am going to try to stop in and look it up at the city and see if I can track down the owners. I tried doing an online search to no avail. The lady I talked with, who owns the little paper in the town up the road, said as far as she knew it was just someones big old house, no important history behind it. I did run across the grave for Rex Cauble's favorite horse, from the Cauble ranch across the freeway, pretty weird. IF you don't know the story, he owned a western wear store back in day was a multi-millionaire and got busted for drugs and lost everything. I'll try and post a few pic's this weekend if I can get a break from work!

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Re: Anyone know gainsville well
<Reply # 12 on 8/30/2007 1:46 AM >
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Oh, I'd love it if you'd post some pictures. I had some, but my computer was stolen and me being the idiot I sometimes am, I had no backup. I can't believe you knocked on the door! That's guts. Every time I go by (I visit Oklahoma about three times a year) I always take the exit and drive by really slowly, just so I can look.

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