While Mule Camp Springs is generally acknowledged as the original name for Gainesville, actually there was a Findley Mule Camp Spring that figured in Gainesville’s founding and location.
Johnny Vardeman: Gainesville's roots in water, its Clark Gable straw poll and last train ride
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