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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Boy Scout Troop 1 (Troup 44)]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Boy Scout Troop 1 (Troup 44) in Van Alstyne, Texas. Text: The U.S. Congress chartered the Boy Scouts of America organization in 1910. Just two years later, three Van Alstyne boys, Rowland Barnett, Otis White, and Rae Nunnallee, received a Boy Scout storybook. Barnett made a Christmas wish and, in March 1913, the Van Alstyne troop received its charter - one of the first in the state. W.F. Barnett, Rowland's father and Van Alstyne school s… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Butterfield Overland Mail Route Through Grayson County]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Butterfield Overland Mail Route Through Grayson County in Sherman, Texas. Text: 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 successful bidder for the southern route was John Butterfield, who agreed to convey mail twice weekly in 25 days per r… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Cannon Cemetery]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Cannon Cemetery in Van Alstyne, Texas. Text: Elijah Cannon, his eleven sons, and slaves moved from South Carolina to Texas in 1852 and settled nearby. In 1874 the family graveyard was included in land deeded by O.M. Cannon as a community burial place. The oldest documented grave is that of ten-year-old Nancy J. Bowen in 1857. An adjacent section was established for former slaves, and the earliest known burials are those of Billy and Glor… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Captain N.A. Birge House]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Captain N.A. Birge House in Sherman, Texas. Text: 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 Confederate Army, Birge became a leading businessman in Jefferson. The owner of a livery stable and numerous city lots, he was an active civic leader invo… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[State Historical Survey Committee Marker: Captain John Henry LeTellier]

Description: Photograph of the State Historical Survey Committee marker for Captain John Henry LeTellier (January 21, 1842 - July 18, 1913) in Sherman, Texas. Text: Born in Virginia, educated at Bethany College. In 1861 he joined Confederate Army, serving in Company K, 24th Virginia infantry fought in battles of Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gettysburg, and others. Received several wounds, one serious (at Plymouth). Resumed teaching at end of war. Came to Texas and operated the Sherman private school… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[State Historical Survey Committee Marker: Captain LeTellier's School]

Description: Photograph of the State Historical Survey Committee marker for Captain LeTellier's School in Sherman, Texas. Text: This school for boys, founded in 1871, was officially known as the Sherman private school, but informally as "the Cap'n's." It was established and run by former Confederate Army Captain John H. LeTellier (1842-1913), who was born and educated (at Bethany College) in Virginia. Pupils who attended his school, housed in a large frame building, were mainly boys, but a few younger girls… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Carpenters Bluff Bridge]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Carpenters Bluff Bridge in Denison, Texas. Text: 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 determined they needed a line through Grayson County to connect there with other railways in order to secure better freight rates for their shi… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: The Carr-Taliaferro House]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for the Carr-Taliaferro House in Sherman, Texas. Text: Prosperous farmer-landowner Richard Bell Carr (1858-1918) and wife Susan (1858-1940) moved into town from Cedar community. They employed highly-regarded contractor in Barrow to design and build this dignified family residence in 1907. Their daughter Susiebel married John Cecie Taliaferro in the front parlor in 1918. Continuing to live here, the Taliaferros later inherited and enlarged th… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[State Historical Survey Committee Marker: Old Cedar Community]

Description: Photograph of the State Historical Survey Committee marker for Old Cedar Community in Sherman, Texas. Text: Settled in 1848 by Grayson County pioneers, who reclaimed land from wilderness. Raiding Indians and hardships of frontier life soon created need for a cemetery, established the same year. The plots were free to any person, many noted settlers are buried here, including one Union and 18 Confederate veterans of the Civil War. Of some 400 graves, half are marked. After community was well est… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Central Christian Church]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Central Christian Church in Sherman, Texas. Text: This congregation traces its beginnings to the late 1850s, when pioneer minister Benjamin Franklin Hall came to this area to preach and organize a church. Early meeting places included a brush arbor and a union meeting house at the local Masonic Hall. A sanctuary was built in 1875 on the corner of Montgomery and Houston Streets. A site on the corner of Travis and Cherry Streets was acquire… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: City of Tom Bean]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for City of Tom Bean in Tom Bean, Texas. Text: Thomas Bean, a wealthy Bonham landowner and surveyor, donated fifty acres of land in southeast Grayson County to be used for a Branch Railroad line from Sherman to Commerce. Bean died in 1887; in that year the city of Tom Bean was established. Nearby Whitemound, which was bypassed by the railroad, lost its post office to Tom Bean's city in 1888; many Whitemound settlers moved to the new town. Mr… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: The Civilian Conservation Corps at Loy Park]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for The Civilian Conservation Corps at Loy Park in Denison, Texas. Text: Grayson County officials became aware of a growing need for a public recreation facility for the area's approximately 65,500 residents in 1930. Three years later the federal government agreed to create a small lake on land provided by the county. The county commissioners court purchased a site 2.5 miles southwest of Denison in October 1933 and secured the services of th… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Coffman Cemetery]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Coffman Cemetery at Loy Park in Denison, Texas. Text: While David Harman Coffman (1827-1888) served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865), his wife Harriet (Jones) and four sons came to north Texas from Missouri. After the war David joined the family and they bought this land. Although the earliest marked grave was dated 1867, the Coffmans deeded the one-acre plot to the county for a public burial ground in 1878. They … more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Colbert's Ferry]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Colbert's Ferry in Denison, Texas. Text: Established about 1853 by Benjamin E. Colbert, across it came thousands of immigrants into Texas in the fifties. The stages of the Southern Overland Mail Line, which provided mail and passenger service between St. Louis and San Francisco crossed there, 1858 to 1861. Abandoned in 1931 when a highway bridge spanned the Red River.
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Cold Springs Log Cabin School]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Cold Springs Log Cabin School in Denison, Texas. Text: Pioneers, who were camped near a spring on property of William S. Reeves (1794-1879) while waiting for their land grants, build this one-room schoolhouse about 1855. The leader of the group was William L. Holder (1820-1876) later used the cabin as a residence. In 1974 the structure was moved to the Old Settlers Village and restored. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1977
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Collin McKinney]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Collin McKinney (April 17, 1766 - September 8, 1861) in Van Alstyne, Texas. Text: A pioneer leader of North Texas and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Collin McKinney was born in New Jersey, a son of Scottish immigrant parents. In 1780 the family moved to Kentucky and in 1824 McKinney migrated across the Red River and settled near present Texarkana. In January, 1836, he was elected a delegate to the General Convention a… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Courthouses of Grayson County]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Courthouses of Grayson County in Sherman, Texas. Text: From pioneer log cabins to 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 current county seat, was completed in 1847 for a cost of $232. It served for one year, until Sherman was relocated to this site, and the commissi… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Dannel Funeral Home]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Dannel Funeral Home in Sherman, Texas. Text: After training in the mortuary sciences in Chicago, John C. Dannel moved with his new wife, Flossie Louella Wade, to Sherman, Texas, where he purchased the Sherman Undertaking Company. John's father had owned and operated an undertaking parlor in Illinois, where John was born, and he followed his father into the business. The Dannels' first funeral parlor in Sherman was located at the corner of… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Davis-Ansley Log Cabin Home]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Davis-Ansley Log Cabin Home in Denison, Texas. Text: Blacksmith Micajah C. Davis (1790-1860), one of the founders of Grayson County, erected this cabin about 1840 at 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 Josephus R. Ansley (1826-1873) and his wife Gilley (1826-1915), the cabin was later occupied by their son Will (1861-1952). Mr. and Mrs. John … more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Diamond Horse Ranch]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Diamond Horse Ranch in Whitesboro, Texas. Text: Founded 1850 by James R. and John Diamond, joined later by their brother George, who had founded paper that today is Houston "Post". Station, 1858-1861, on Butterfield Stage Line. The Diamond brothers were political leaders and active in Texas Frontier Defense and masonry. James is buried here.
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Dorchester School]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Dorchester School in Dorchester, Texas. Text: The community of Dorchester was founded on the railroad during the early years of the twentieth century. Two one-room country schools were established to provide for the education of the children of the families who moved to the area. The Dorchester School came into being about 1907 with the consolidation of these schools. Between 1913 and 1915, a two-story brick schoolhouse was constructed at… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[State Historical Survey Committee Marker: Birthplace of Dwight D. Eisenhower]

Description: Photograph of the State Historical Survey Committee marker for Birthplace of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denison, Texas. Text: Thirty-fourth President of the United States; born here Oct. 14, 890, third son of David J. and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, 1915; in 1943, during World War II, was appointed commanding general of the Allied Forces in Europe; served as President of Columbia University, 1948-1952; was President of U.S., 1952-19… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Eleventh Texas Cavalry]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Eleventh Texas Cavalry in Sherman, Texas. Text: In May 1861, a frontier unit was organized at Camp Reeves in Sherman. Drawing volunteers from Cooke, Grayson, Hopkins, Red River, Fannin, Collin, Titus, and Bowie Counties, the regiment began with nearly 900 men and officers. Initially led by the noted Colonel William Cocke Young, the unit fought its first battles in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, securing the territory for the Confederacy.… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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