Gainesville’s standing as a health resort in the late 1800s and early 1900s played a part in the reunion of family members who lost touch with one another over 30 years. Seaborn J. Nunn came to Gainesville from Atlanta about 1870 in hopes of improving his failing health. Apparently doing better and wanting to make Gainesville his home, he wrote to his son, Jim Nunn, to bring the family to Gainesville.At the time the old Airline Railroad ran only as far as Buford from Atlanta, so all his belongings had to be hauled by horse and wagon the rest of the way.