Editing Gainesville, Alabama (section)

==Points of interest==
[[File:House at Gainesville 01.jpg|thumb|The Moses Lewis House (Lewis-Long House) on Yankee Street.  Lewis laid out the town and named it in honor of [[George Strother Gaines]].  The house is part of the [[Main–Yankee Street Historic District]].]]
Gainesville has 67 historic sites that are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], with many that predate the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Copeland|first=Larry|title= Southern towns shrink, economic woes grow|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-17-deepsouth_N.htm|work=USA Today|date=June 17, 2008|access-date=October 19, 2024|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080804075833/www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-17-deepsouth_N.htm|archive-date=August 4, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The [[Historic district (United States)|historic districts]] include the [[Gainesville Historic District]] and [[Main–Yankee Street Historic District]]. Individual structures include [[Aduston Hall]], the [[Coffin Shop]], [[Colgin Hill]], [[Gibbs House (Gainesville, Alabama)|Gibbs House]], [[Col. Green G. Mobley House]], the [[Gainesville Park and Bandstand|Park and Bandstand]], and [[Laura Watson House]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref><ref name="gainesvillemra">{{NRHP url|id=64000015|title=Gainesville MRA}} NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved July 2, 2011.</ref>