Gainesboro, Tennessee
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Gainesboro is a town in and the county seat of Jackson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 920 at the 2020 census.
Downtown Gainesboro
Longhunter
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A longhunter was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier for as much as six months at a time.
Gainesboro, Tennessee
…Gainesboro is part of the Cookeville, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Gainesboro vicinity was a popular destination for long hunters as early as the 1770s, as natural salt licks drew rich game to the area. In the 1790s, Avery's Trace passed nearby, with travellers along the road…
Reconstructed "lean-to" at the longhunter camp demonstration area at Bledsoe's Fort Historic Park in Sumner County, Tennessee
Stones River
1852 painting of Squire Boone crossing the mountains