On Lamar Street (State Highway 56) near Travis Street, on the left when traveling east.
[Millstone marker text is damaged]
Here passed
Marcy's California Trail 1849
Butterfield Trail 1858
Rededicated [November 22,] 2013
Moved and restored by
Love Monument Company
in cooperation with
Judge Drew Bynum
and . . . — — Map (db m73220) HM
On Grayson Street at Texas Street on Grayson Street.
In 1840, authorized by an 1838 act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, Col. W.G. Cooke and the Texas First Infantry Regiment laid out a military road from Austin north through what became Dallas to the Holland Coffee Trading Post on Red . . . — — Map (db m264096) HM
On Travis Street south of Houston Street (Texas Highway 56), on the left when traveling north.
In the mainstream of Texas history for more than a century, this area was, in 1837, the site of Colonel Holland Coffee's trading post, a landmark structure at the Preston Bend crossing of the Red River.
It was a focal point, beginning in . . . — — Map (db m73242) HM
Near Paso Hondo 0.1 miles west of North Palmetto Street. Reported damaged.
Heroic defender of honor of Texas and the United States. Born in Lexington, N.C., came to Texas in 1869. Gained National fame as Grayson County Marshal and Deputy Sheriff, 1871 - 1876. Served with Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers, 1876 - 1880, . . . — — Map (db m163407) HM
On Cemetery Road 0.2 miles west of Preston Bend Rd. Reported permanently removed.
Man for whom 2600-sq. mi. West Texas county was named. Born in Tennessee. Married Jane Moore in 1844 in Arkansas. Came to Texas about 1845. Was Grayson County tax collector, 1848-1850; sheriff, 1850-1854. Served as State Representative, 1855-1861. . . . — — Map (db m264062) HM
On Carpenters Bluff Road at River Road on Carpenters Bluff Road.
Originally built as a railroad bridge for the Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf (MO&G) line, this landmark structure across the Red River continues to provide a transportation route between Grayson County, Texas, and Bryan County, Oklahoma. MO&G officials . . . — — Map (db m264040) HM
On Crockett Street at Houston Street (Texas Highway 56), on the left when traveling south on Crockett Street.
Military, defense and supply center in the Civil War. 11th Tex. Cav. Regt. raised in this and area counties, May 1861. Removed immediate danger from North by capture [of] Forts Washita, Cobb, Arbuckle in Indian Territory. Beef for these posts . . . — — Map (db m223632) HM
On West Main Street (Farm to Market Road 121) 1.5 miles west of Preston Road (State Highway 289), on the right when traveling west.
Established 1880's by Jot Gunter, developer of Texas real estate, prominent Grayson County businessman. In mid-1890's his ranch exceeded 20,000 acres. Gunter, born in North Carolina in 1845, came to Texas to practice law after he served in . . . — — Map (db m194779) HM
On Front Street (County Route 300B) at Austin Street (Route 300E), on the left when traveling east on Front Street.
During a brief and troubled time in her life, Carry Amelia Moore Nation (1846-1911) operated the "Old Columbia Hotel" on this site about 1880. She later achieved fame as a hatchet-wielding crusader against the use of alcoholic drink and tobacco. . . . — — Map (db m89328) HM
On East Line Road 1.6 miles north of Farm to Market Road 898, on the right when traveling north.
A.M. Bryant (1818-1889) moved to Texas in 1853 with wife, Clarissa Young, and four children. One died on the trip. Clarissa died in 1854. A daughter died later both buried in the Kentuckytown Cemetery.
The home was erected on this site in 1855. . . . — — Map (db m263793) HM
On Texoma Parkway (State Highway 91), on the right when traveling north.
Electric railways (trolleys) provided convenient travel between many Texas cities for more than forty years. The first Interurban Line was established in Grayson County, connecting the cities of Sherman and Denison. Founded in 1900 by Fred Fitch and . . . — — Map (db m263947) HM
On Houston Street (State Highway 56) west of Travis Street, on the left when traveling west.
under the auspices of the Ex-Confederate Association of Grayson Co. Tex.
Organized July 21, 1888
Changed to
Mildred Lee Camp U.C.V. May 21, 1892.
Sacred to the memory of our Confederate Dead: true patriots. They fought for home and . . . — — Map (db m73252) HM
On South Buchanan Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1875 Henry B. Sanborn (1845-1912) began a long association with the State of Texas when he became the Texas sales agent for Joseph F. Glidden's newly patented invention, barbed wire. A native of New York, Sanborn had become . . . — — Map (db m91672) HM
On North 3rd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Born in Marlboro, Mass., to Micah and Susanna Dennison (Frost) Sherman, Sidney Sherman (1805-1873) lived in Boston, New York City, and Cincinnati before settling in Newport, Ky. There he married Catherine Isabel Cox (1815-1865) in 1835; the couple . . . — — Map (db m290049) HM
On Pine Street at North State Line Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Pine Street.
Worshiped in 1831 at McKinney's Landing, where the McKinney family and a small group of neighbors met together for informal services. During the winter of 1841-1842, a traveling preacher from Illinois, G. Gates, organized the congregation into a . . . — — Map (db m286697) HM
On Houston Street (State Highway 56) at Travis Street, on the left when traveling west on Houston Street.
Peter Wagener Grayson was born in 1788 in Bardstown, Virginia (later part of Kentucky) to Benjamin and Caroline (Taylor) Grayson, members of a politically prominent family. He served in the War of 1812 and worked in Louisville as an attorney, . . . — — Map (db m294308) HM
On West Pine Street at South Sears Street, on the right when traveling east on West Pine Street.
In 1855, men in Kentucky Town organized a Masonic lodge, receiving their charter the following year as the Kentucky Town Masonic Lodge No. 167. More than 20 years later, in 1878, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad bypassed Kentucky Town, running . . . — — Map (db m256539) HM
On Farm to Market Road 90 at Gordon Lane, on the right when traveling east on Route 90.
Alabama native Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr. (b. 1834) came to Jasper, Texas, with his family in 1847. Broughton married Mary Elizabeth Douglas in 1856. He studied law in Smith County and was admitted to the bar in 1857. By 1860 the Broughtons were . . . — — Map (db m96380) HM
On S Ferguson Pkwy (County Road 367) 0.1 miles south of W White Street, on the right when traveling south.
In the 1850s, North Texas attracted settlers from border states like Kentucky with the promise of inexpensive land for farming and stock raising. One such man was Dr. William Dixon Lair (1814-1887), a pioneer physician, former Kentucky state . . . — — Map (db m309928) HM
On North Denny Street (State Highway 5) at East O'Connell Street on North Denny Street.
The daughter of James M. and Martha Sue (Baxter) Roberts, Mame Roberts lived her entire life in or near the community of Howe. Largely self-taught, she worked as a substitute teacher in the lower grades at the Howe Public Schools in the early 1900s . . . — — Map (db m194747) HM
Near Hall Cemetery Road 0.6 miles west of Farmington Road.
William Whitley Wheat (1820-1890) was born in Alabama to Samuel and Cynthia (Stinson) Wheat. He married Cynthia Ann Maynard, and the couple came to Texas in 1842 to Peters Colony. They moved three years later to what is now Grayson County, settling . . . — — Map (db m194771) HM
On West Lamar Street at South Woods Street on West Lamar Street.
Missouri native Jesse "Jess" P. Loving came to Texas with his family in 1847. They settled first near relatives in Denton County, and moved to Sherman in Grayson County in 1852. Loving married Lydia Ellen Bomar in 1859. A Confederate veteran, he . . . — — Map (db m256701) HM
On South Crockett Street 0.1 miles south of West Cherry Street, on the right when traveling south.
Edward Metz (1854-1913) came to Texas from Michigan as a young man to join his brother, Charles, in a leather goods business. In the 1870s, they built a profitable trade, buying buffalo hides and other furs from Indian tribes in Oklahoma to sell to . . . — — Map (db m223643) HM
On West Lamar Street at South Woods Street on West Lamar Street.
Thomas J. Shannon came to Texas in 1839 and settled in what became Grayson County in 1845. Elected first Grayson County representative to the Texas Legislature, he worked for relocation of the county seat to the present site of Sherman. Shannon . . . — — Map (db m256826) HM
On Lamar Street (State Highway 56) east of Crockett Street, on the left when traveling east.
In the mid-19th century, mail traffic between the eastern United States and the western states and territories was accomplished via Panama and Cape Horn. In 1857, Congress authorized the postmaster to contract a new overland mail service. The . . . — — Map (db m73214) HM
On Ridgeway Circle north of West Shepherd Street, on the left when traveling north.
Architect Donald Mayes (1914-1966) designed and lived in this house with his wife, Rose Marie (Riddle) (1918-2008), whom he married in 1940. In addition to this home, he designed several others in the Edgewood addition, as well as banks, schools, . . . — — Map (db m183994) HM
On West Woodard Street at North Fannin Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Woodard Street.
Denison's oldest house of worship and oldest Episcopal Sanctuary in Grayson County.
Site given by Denison Town Company and visitation by the Rt. Rev. Alexander Gregg, first Bishop of Texas, in May 1873.
Cornerstone was laid in 1875 by . . . — — Map (db m184648) HM
Near RC Vaughan Road north of West Loy Lake Road, on the right when traveling north.
Built on 800-acre farm near Bells by Geo. S. Fitzgerald, who moved with family from Virginia to Texas in 1857. He cut building timber on his farm in 1859. On return from Confederate army he erected this house in 1866. He was prosperous and . . . — — Map (db m183656) HM
On West Lamar Street at South Woods Street on West Lamar Street.
Martha Ora "Mattie" Davis was born in Mississippi and moved to Texas as an infant. She earned a teaching certificate in 1884 and in 1889 married William H. Lucas. Active in civic organizations and women's clubs, Mattie spearheaded many civic . . . — — Map (db m300175) HM
On South Sherley Road at 5th Street, on the left when traveling south on South Sherley Road.
Liberty Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), one of the earliest Christian churches in Texas, was founded in northern Collin County by pioneer settlers Collin McKinney and J.B. Wilmeth in 1846. In 1854 a Christian seminary was established by . . . — — Map (db m194694) HM
On Festival Lane 0.2 miles south of East Navarro Avenue (State Highway 6), on the right when traveling west.
Frances Marie Sparks, a native of North Carolina and daughter of Daniel and Kezziah Sparks, married Thomas Brown in 1865. They lived in Grayson County, Texas, before moving to a 410 - acre farm near here about 1876. During the 1880s and 1890s . . . — — Map (db m310174) HM
Near RC Vaughan Road north of South Polaris Street, on the right when traveling north.
Blacksmith Micajah C. Davis (1790-1860), one of the founders of Grayson County, erected this cabin about 1840at Iron Ore Creek settlement near present Denison. The Pioneer home was built of hand-hewn oak logs with a plank floor. Sold in 1870 to . . . — — Map (db m183430) HM
Near RC Vaughan Road north of West Loy Lake Road, on the right when traveling north.
A Native of Missouri, Jesse Elvis Hendricks (1837-1920) cane to Grayson County in 1846. In 1863-64, he built this log home five miles southeast of this site. It was originally a one-room cabin with a loft, but Hendricks and his wife, Susan Matilda . . . — — Map (db m183614) HM
On Hall Cemetery Road 0.6 miles east of Farmington Road, on the right when traveling west.
Located on land patented by Anderson White (1801-85), on certificate issued April 23, 1850, by Peters Colony, an immigration project which had received a large land grant in this region from the Republic of Texas. Burial plot was begun Jan. 6, 1857, . . . — — Map (db m194769) HM
On Preston Bend Road (Texas Route 289) at Davis Forest Lane on Preston Bend Road.
A community grew up near Fort Johnson on the Texas Military Road (also known as the Shawnee Trail) in the 1840s. Earlier called Georgetown and Reevesville, the settlement became known as Fink when a post office (500 feet north) was established in . . . — — Map (db m223629) HM
On Grayson Street (Farm to Market Road 996) at Texas Street on Grayson Street.
Caddo and Wichita Indian tribes occupied this area before Anglo settlement began in the 19th century. Among the early settlers was James G. Thompson, whose daughter, Sarah Virginia, married James A. Potts (1838-1905). A Confederate veteran, rancher, . . . — — Map (db m264095) HM
South Carolinian Aaron Mangum came to Texas with a Georgia battalion in 1835 and served under Colonel James Fannin at Goliad. Mangum took ill during an expeditionary mission and fatefully avoided death at the Goliad Massacre. He married Leonora . . . — — Map (db m315711) HM
On Lamar Street (State Highway 56) east of Crockett Street, on the left when traveling east.
From pioneer log cabins to a native Texas limestone structure, Grayson County courthouses have taken many shapes and sizes since the county's establishment in 1846. The first courthouse, a frame building on bald prairie a few miles west of the . . . — — Map (db m73211) HM
On Interstate 30 Frontage Road 0.2 miles west of Division Street, on the right when traveling west.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, plans were enacted for the Reconstruction of the Union with the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865, and the passages of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867. Texas would not . . . — — Map (db m282770) HM
On South 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north.
North Carolina native George W. Truett followed his parents to Texas in 1889, and settled first in Whitewright in Grayson county. He worked on the family farm, attended Grayson Junior College, and became an active member of the Baptist Congregation. . . . — — Map (db m225975) HM
Near RC Vaughan Road north of West Loy Lake Road, on the right when traveling north.
Pioneers, who were camped near a spring on property of William S. Reeves (1794-1879) while waiting for their land grants, built this one-room schoolhouse about 1855. The leader of the group was William L. Holder (1820-1876), who migrated to . . . — — Map (db m183820) HM
On Elliott Cemetery Road 0.5 miles east of Farm to Market Road 121.
David Elliott (d. 1909), for whom this cemetery is named, was a pioneer settler in the southern part of Grayson County. Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1817, he joined the crew of a boat on the Mississippi River at an early age. He later served . . . — — Map (db m281785) HM
Near Hall Cemetery Road 0.6 miles west of Farmington Road.
Jabez Haning (1827-1883) came to Grayson County with his family in 1846. In the 1850s Jabez Haning obtained a grant of 320 acres of land from the Peters Colony. His land was located about nine miles south of the town of Sherman. Harriet Campbell . . . — — Map (db m194778) HM
On West Birge Street at North Wood Street, on the right when traveling west on West Birge Street.
Connecticut native Noble Allan Birge (1832-1902) came to Texas prior to the Civil War. Settling in Jefferson with his wife and children, he was the first elected sheriff of Marion County in 1860.
Following his service as a captain in the . . . — — Map (db m263869) HM
On Texas Route 289 at Double D Ranch Road, on the right when traveling north on Texas Route 289.
When Grayson County was created on March 17, 1846, by the first Legislature of the State of Texas, the act named the county seat in honor of Sidney Sherman (1805-73), an heroic leader at the Battle of San Jacinto and in the affairs of the Republic . . . — — Map (db m238002) HM
On Travis Street north of Lamar Street ( Highway 56), on the left when traveling north.
One of the most festive events in Sherman's early history, Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 appearance here marked the first visit of a President of the United States to Grayson County.
Traveling to San Antonio to attend a reunion of the . . . — — Map (db m73236) HM
On West Houston Street at S Crockett Street, on the left when traveling west on West Houston Street.
The Sherman Riot of 1930 was one of a number of major incidents of racial violence that occurred in the United States at the onset of the Great Depression. On May 3, 1930, George Hughes (b. 1889), a black farm laborer, was accused of assaulting a . . . — — Map (db m294380) HM
On East Cooper Street at South Waco Street (State Highway 5), on the left when traveling east on East Cooper Street.
Constituted on June 5, 1875, this lodge was organized in the early Grayson County community of Farmington (5 mi. SW). Members voted to move the lodge to Howe in 1887, after the earlier settlement was bypassed by the railroad. In Howe, the first . . . — — Map (db m194721) HM
On 4th Avenue (State Highway 217) 0.2 miles west of Russell Long Boulevard (State Highway 48 Spur), on the right when traveling west.
In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treeless Texas Panhandle, the solution proved to be barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois devised and by 1876 was manufacturing (with I.L. Ellwood) the first really practical barbed wire on . . . — — Map (db m55972) HM
On U.S. 87 at Houston Avenue (County Highway 240), on the left when traveling west on U.S. 87.
Founded 1906 as Bello ("Beautiful View"), tent city of workers building Texas and New Orleans Railroad. Renamed 1909 for Wm. Westhoff (August 8, 1831 - March 19, 1911), local merchant and political leader. For a time town had 3 cotton gins, 13 . . . — — Map (db m167378) HM
On Hayes Street at Hilltop Drive, on the right when traveling south on Hayes Street.
Albert, father of John Hendrix, entered the service five times during the Revolutionary War for Independence. His verified pension statement recounts that he served with General Washington. He was awarded annual pension $99.56 which was then paid to . . . — — Map (db m263946) HM
On West Lamar Street at South Woods Street on West Lamar Street.
Born near Fair Dealing, Kentucky, Mita Holsapple moved with her family to Sherman as a child and graduated from Mary Nash College. Wed to Hugh E. Hall in 1919, she organized the first Camp Fire Girls group in Sherman two years later. For the next 44 . . . — — Map (db m256720) HM
On Pettit Parkway (U.S. 69) at West Grand Street, on the right when traveling north on Pettit Parkway.
Early settlers in this part of Grayson County established communities at Orangeville (4 mi. E), Pilot Grove (4 mi. S), and Kentucky Town (3 mi. W). In 1878, after the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (MKT) Railroad built a line southeast from Denison to . . . — — Map (db m256520) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2729 at Farm to Market Road 121, on the right when traveling north on Road 2729.
Founded 1852 by Elijah Cannon who came from South Carolina with his children and slaves to develop 700 acres of land. Family established a church, cotton gin, grist mill, wagon factory. By 1885 town had an academy and 400 people. Bypassed by Houston . . . — — Map (db m263786) HM
On Grayson Drive at Marrett Ave, on the left when traveling west on Grayson Drive.
Plans began in early 1941 for a U.S. Army Air Corps installation to be located in Grayson County. This 1,160-acre site was acquired in June, and Air Corps personnel began arriving in August. The base was to serve as a basic flight training facility. . . . — — Map (db m238003) HM
On West Pecan Street at W Pecan Street, on the right when traveling east on West Pecan Street.
In the 19th century, Protestant denominations began sending representatives into Texas to organize new churches. By 1850, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church had established seven congregations in Grayson County. The following year, the Rev. W.A. . . . — — Map (db m263926) HM
On Brewer Road west of Binion Road, on the right when traveling west.
Georgia natives Thomas Noel Binion (1827-1900) and Pauline Walker Binion (1829-1915) migrated to Texas after the Civil War. They moved to the Oxford community in Grayson County where they purchased this 107-acre farm in 1871. Thomas and Pauline . . . — — Map (db m256956) HM
On U.S. 377 at Tamplen Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 377.
The community of Dixie was formed from families arriving around the end of the Civil War. One early settler, John Chisum, settled the area with immediate and extended members of his family. The site of Dixie Cemetery was sold when early landowner . . . — — Map (db m315713) HM
On Penny Road 0.5 miles west of Pettit Pkwy (U.S. 69), on the right when traveling west.
Emanuel and Rachel Montgomery Everheart arrived here in 1848 with their son, William, and members of her family. By 1850, the Everhearts owned 3,346 acres, including this land. Family history holds that the oldest burials here (in the northwest . . . — — Map (db m263787) HM
On Hayes Street at Hilltop Drive, on the right when traveling south on Hayes Street.
A native of North Carolina, John Hendrix (1798-1893) came to Texas in 1846 with his wife, Ruth (Strader) (1804-1882) their children and seven other families. Their first camp in the area is marked by a large boulder in this cemetery. Hendrix ran . . . — — Map (db m263945) HM
On North Harrison Avenue north of East Lewis Street.
A public-spirited group dedicated to preservation of history and enrichment of contemporary life.
Founded in 1879, when oldtimers traveled by wagon and camped near Sherman to reminisce about days of Republic of Texas, the frontier, and the . . . — — Map (db m263856) HM
On Main Street at Crockett Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
Ernst Martin Kohl (1857-1935), former German Navy captain who came to Denison in 1885, built the first floor of this structure in 1893 to house a grocery store and saloon. He added the top three floors in 1909-11 as his family's residence. In . . . — — Map (db m72853) HM
Near Byllesby Road (County Route 602) at Buck Dam Road, on the right when traveling east.
For centuries people have "taken the waters" of naturally heated sulphur springs to aid in a variety of ailments including digestive and pulmonary diseases and skin disorders. It was thought that something that tasted and smelled so bad had to do . . . — — Map (db m286704) HM
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