Another business was the office of Dr. James Marion Puckett, who may have started the community when he first practiced his doctoring.

Hainesville had an agricultural economy; settlers primarily grew cotton but also farmed sugar cane, peanuts, melons and peaches.

Approximately 25 ancient rifles were reportedly found when ditches were dug during construction on the Haines mill, two miles south of Hainesville, in 1870.

A few years later, on the adjoining Joe Moody property, the unmarked grave of a White man who was buried in a hewn-log coffin was discovered.

According to local history, the body belonged to the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who was assassinated in East Texas in 1687.

[2] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.