Walking toward the Inked Pig on Main Street in Gainesville, Garland Reynolds Jr. smiled as he remembered the days when steam-operated locomotives stopped in Gainesville to fill up on water.
What’s now Inked Pig was first made famous thanks to a black bear and steam locomotives
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