Grayson County
North Texas County, bordering Oklahoma:. . . . Created
and organized in 1846 from FANNIN county, Named for Peter W. GRAYSON, Attorney
General of Texas Republic. Early center of activity in the north Blacklands.
Site
of old town of PRESTON northwest of DENISON was submerged
during 1944 by the rising waters of LAKE TEXOMA, impounded
by the new DENISON Dam across the RED RIVER.
About 1850, it was the most important town in North
Texas terminus of the old PRESTON ROAD and division point on stage route
to CALIFORNIA.
SHERMAN, county seat, is home of Austin College and
St. Joseph's Academy. Perrin Air Force Base laid west of SHERMAN and DENISON.
DENISON is a rialroad and manufacturing center. WHITESBORO, VAN ALSTYNE,
WHITEWRIGHT are other heavy populated cities.
OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES I952/53:
North to South: CEDAR MILLS, GORDONVILLE, POTTSBORO,
HANGER, BONA, AMBOSE,
SCHENICK, SADLER, SOUTHMAYD, BELLS, LUELLA, COLLINSVILLE,
DORCHESTER, HOWE, TOM BEAN, TIOGA, GUNTER.
CREEKS; North to South;
Mineral ck., Range ck., Choctaw ck., Buck ck.
East Fork of Trinity River begins here:
In the 1990- 91 Texas Almanac, we find Lake
Ray Hubbard has been built north of Tioga
and Grayson College is located between SHERMAN
and DENISON, also the community of KNOLLWOODS has sprung up on the west
edge of SHERMAN.
This was on the Migration Trails into NORTH TEXAS. The pioneers took these trails from Fort Chaffee Arkansas after leaving the steamships and flatboats of waterway trails from 1803 to 1900.
My grandparents passed this way in 1870 and in 1890 going to Cook and Montague Counties of Texas. I have discovered my Tarr and Bell families passed through Grayson County according to family legend on their way to Montague County finally crossing the Red River into Love County Oklahoma by Ferry.
The image above misrepresent the teams that pulled the wagons, two could not pull very long, the pioneers used oxen and mules , the oxen could be a team of two but the mules or horses unless draft horses were made up of four , sixes or eight to gain any distant.
They usually averaged ten miles a day, many settled for awhile before traveling on west.
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