Generations of Gainesville and Hall County students, not to mention the rest of Northeast Georgia, have either had classes in or walked by Park Hall numerous times on the main campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Probably few realized that the building was named for a former Gainesvillian, the first superintendent of Gainesville schools, Robert Emory Park. He filled that position when what was then called Gainesville College served as the local high school in 1894.