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Gainesville - History
Gainesville - A post-village in the southwestern part of Hancock county, on the Pearl river, 8 miles north of Pearlington, the nearest banking town, and 25 miles west of Bay St. Louis, the county seat. It has two churches and several stores. Population in 1900,	227.(Dunbar Rowland,
Vol.1)
A Spanish land grant was issued to 1810 to Ambrose Gaines, a medical doctor, for the area known as Gainesville. At first, Gines called his possession Gaines Bluff. Some say the bluff was called Cottonport, for obvious reasons. The 1821 tax roll showed Dr. Gaines owned 500 acres and one slave. (PC&C)
1878
Rev. A. B. Nicholson, writing from Pearlington October 23, 1878 says "Yellow fever has been in this town ever since the first of August. It has visited this place several times, but has never been an epidemic, in the common acceptation of that word, though it proved fatal in nearly every case, so it has this year. No new cases at this date. Business of all kinds has stopped; church matters suspended; Sunday-school stopped; our flock scattered - some have crossed the last river, mostly young people. Logtown, two miles above here, a small place of not more than two hundred inhabitants has been awfully scourged by the fever, in fact I question wheather any place in the South hass suffered more than Logtown, according to its population. While the entire population has been prostrated; the death rate very heavy. In that community we had a new and beautiful church, a respectable congregation, Sunday-school and Missionary Society; but alas, how sad to-day. Our steward there Bro. Robert Carrie, a noble Christian gentleman, was among the first to fall victim to the disease, and none left to take his place. The fatality has been in the main among the young people. Gainesville is eight miles above Logtown. When I was there last but two cases were reported. The white population is almost gone. We Quarantined, but too late; the fever was in our midst	before we began	the work. We
have a yellow fever doctor	with us	doing a	good	work
Nurses have been sent by the Howards. Our local physician, Dr. Mead, though born and educated	in the north	met the
monster face to face, with	a moral	heroism	that	entitles
him to a great praise. We have today cold north wind."
From the Christian Advocate, New Orleans, October 26, 1878 (PC&C p 38)
Gainseville, Named after Ambrose Gaines, (WPA, 1937)
Gainesville voting precinct personal property was appraised by F.C. Bordages, County Assessor, at $17,194.00 in 1895.