Gainesville, Virginia

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Gainesville, Virginia

Gainesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 15,000 at the 2007 census.

History

Gainesville was once a changing point for stagecoach horses on the Fauquier & Alexandria Turnpike. In 1852, the Manassas Gap Railroad reached the area and the stop became known as Gainesville. The town was a shipping point for grain, timber, and cattle and remained a major cattle shipping point into the early 1960s. During the American Civil War, nearby Thoroughfare Gap in the Bull Run Mountains served as a path for soldiers to reach the First and Second Battles of Manassas. In 1994, the groundbreaking for the town's first townhome community began; it was named Crossroads. This marked the beginning of mass-development for Gainesville.

In 2006, VDOT began working on the Gainesville Interchange improvement project in order to ease the traffic in the rapidly growing Gainesville-Haymarket area.

Now, 2008, what was once a country town, is a crowded suburban city. And Crossroads, which was at one point surrounded by cow fields, is surrounded by nothing but more houses and roads.

In result, the amount of vandalism in the town has increased.

According to U.S. Postal Service, Gainesville has two ZIP codes:

• 20155

• 20156