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Book explains how Gainesville spread its wings
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In his book, “Mule and Wagon to Automobile,” Prof. Thomas H. Rasmussen of Gainesville explores how a Gainesville of 472 people in 1870 grew into a sprawling metropolitan area of 180,000 today. A constant theme is how most Hall Countians a century or more ago were subsistence farmers; that is, they produced most of what they needed on their farms.