Grayson County TXGenWeb
Interesting people, places & things

Good Days and Bad Days in Grayson Co.


An old Bois d'Arc tree in a field of Indian Blanket Flowers.
Fruit of the Bois d'Arc tree.
Grayson & Fannin County Texas is the starting place of all Bois d'Arc Trees.

Some Early Grayson County History

Ever Wonder what was available in grocery stores in the
good old days?  Read the inventory of the Tarr & Newcome
grocery store taken in Jan of 1874


First Courthouse of Grayson County
The First White child born in Grayson County was
Lucinda Jane Atchison on Aug. 5, 1844
First House with Glass Windows is the Nettie Bass House, is now in Frontier Village in Denison
First Indian Attack
Many Early Grayson County Happenings and things of interest are in the Vaden family book

People

Walter William Kinney - played for the Red Sox


Belle Starr & GRAYSON COUNTY CONNECTIONS
:found on this page.

Texas Day by Day , each day in history of Texas

Texas History Quizzes!
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Places


Glen Eden Plantation
Fort Warren-Frontier Settlers Fort was near Ambrose
Woodmen's Circle Home
The Achison Stone Fort was Southwest of Sherman
Frontier Village Museum in Loy lake Park
Texas Theater in Sherman

Campus Drive In Theater - 2500 E. Lamar
Coffee's Trading Post
Preston Supply Depot
Fort Johnson/Johnston
T.V. Munson Memorial Vineyard
Preston Road
Perrin Air Force Base

Perrin Field Historical Society

Water ways- Rivers , Lakes,Creeks & the Denison Dam



This movie Premeried in Denison Texas ' Rialto Theater !
with John Wayne and the other Stars present


Roy Rogers &Yellow Jacket Boats,built in Denison Texas !
check out this great website.


Gene Autry , Born in Tioga, Grayson County, Texas!
Buck Owens, Singer and star of 'Hee Haw' born in Sherman Texas! Fan Club

This from Michael Alan Reese of Houston --Did You Know?
Jesse Gent Nash (1822-1897) & wife, Mary Louisa (Marsh) Nash (1826-1896) who founded the
Mary Nash College of Sherman were the parents of Alexander Quincy Nash. Alexander and his wife
Martha Smith were the parents of John Forbes Nash, Sr. born about 1892 in Sherman, Grayson County,
TX. John Forbes Nash, a graduate of Texas A&M College, moved away to Bluefield, Mercer Co., West
Virginia. He married Margaret Virginia Martin and they are the parents of
 JOHN FORBES NASH, JR.  the winner of the Nobel Prize Economics and the subject of the
book and now a movie, A BEAUTIFUL MIND.
 Jesse Gent Nash


Ranch History
Jot Gunter, William B. Munson, Sr., and John S. Summerfield
Owned the T Anchor Ranch in West Texas. Many Grayson County
People involved ; Cattle drives from Grayson to the T Anchor Ranch

Read the stories gathered in the 1930's concering ranching and also the
mentions of the Sanborn and Gunter Ranches.
Sanborn Ranch in Western Grayson
Connections to the inventor of barbed Wire ("bobwire")
 
Henry Bradley Sanborn, businessman and rancher, the 
"Father of Amarillo, 

Birds eye Views of Texas


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