Sherman, Texas

Sherman, Texas Paul Brown United States Courthouse in Sherman Paul Brown United States Courthouse in Sherman Location of Sherman, Texas Location of Sherman, Texas Sherman is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's populace in 2010 was 38,521. It is one of the two principal metros/cities in the Sherman Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area, and it is part of the Texoma region.

Sherman was titled after General Sidney Sherman (July 23, 1805 August 1, 1873), a hero of the Texas Revolution.

The improve was designated as the governmental center of county by the act of the Texas council which created Grayson County on March 17, 1846.

Sherman was originally positioned at the center of the county, but in 1848 it was moved about 3 miles (5 km) east to its current location.

By 1850, Sherman had turn into an incorporated town under Texas law.

By 1852, Sherman had a populace of 300.

During the 1850s and 1860s, Sherman continued to precarious and to participate in county-wide politics.

During and after the Civil War, north Texas outlaw bands led by Jesse James and William Quantrill were seen in Sherman.

The Sherman Male and Female High School started accepting students amid 1866, under the patronage of the North Texas Methodist Conference.

It was one of three private schools in Sherman at the time.

This school directed under a several names (North Texas Female College and Conservatory of Music beginning in 1892 and Kidd-Key College and Conservatory beginning in 1919) until 1935. It gradually lost Methodist support, after the opening of Southern Methodist University in 1915 in Dallas.

In 1876, Austin College, the earliest continuously operating college in Texas, relocated from Huntsville to Sherman.

Sherman Female Institute, later known as Mary Nash College, opened in 1877 under sponsorship of the Baptist Church.

Jews have had a long history in Sherman, too, settling in the region and meeting for the High Holidays by 1873. During the 1870s Sherman's populace reached 6,000.

In 1879, the Old Settlers' Association of North Texas formed and met near Sherman.

On May 15, 1896, a tornado measuring F5 on the Fujita scale hit Sherman.

In 1901 the first electric "Interurban" stockyards in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was instead of between Sherman and Denison. The Texas Traction Company instead of a 65-mile (105 km) interurban between Sherman and Dallas in 1908, and it purchased the Denison and Sherman Railway in 1911.

One prominent destination on the Interurban between Sherman and Denison was Wood Lake Park, a private amusement park at the time.

During the Sherman Riot of May 9, 1930, Sherman's elegant 1876 courthouse was burned down by arson amid the trial of an African American man, George Hughes.

Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was in Sherman amid this brawl and reported the situation to Texas Governor Dan Moody. Governor Moody sent National Guard troops to Sherman on May 9 and more on May 10 to control the situation.

Sherman is positioned slightly east of the center of Grayson County, between Denison to the north and Howe to the south.

The town/city has a total region of 41.5 square miles (107.4 km2), of which 41.4 square miles (107.2 km2) are territory and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.20%, are water. Sherman is 70 miles (110 km) north of Dallas and 31 miles (50 km) southwest of Durant, Oklahoma.

Sherman is part of the humid subtropical climate area.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Sherman District Parole Office in Sherman. Most kids in Sherman are zoned to the Sherman Independent School District, which includes Sherman High School.

A small percent of kids attend one of the three private schools in Sherman.

Austin College, a private, Presbyterian, liberal arts college, relocated to Sherman in 1876.

Founded in 1849, it is the earliest college or college in Texas operating under its initial charter.

Grayson College, a improve college based in neighboring Denison, operates a branch ground in Sherman.

The Sherman Public Library serves the city.

KXII tv studio in Sherman Sherman City Hall Sherman is served by two U.S.

(The latter is locally designated as the Buck Owens Freeway after the famous musician who was born in Sherman.) It is also served by three Texas State Highways which extend beyond Grayson County: State Highway 11, State Highway 56, and State Highway 91 (Texoma Parkway), one of the chief commercial strips that joins Sherman and Denison and also extends to Lake Texoma.

Sherman Municipal Airport General aviation service is provided by Sherman Municipal Airport and North Texas Regional Airport/Perrin Field in Denison.

Jones Regional Medical Center in Sherman TAPS Public Transit is the sole transit provider for Sherman, with two fixed routes (the Roo and Viking Routes), and curb to curb paratransit for all residents.

TAPS Public Transit also provides routes connecting Sherman to Dallas (via the DART Plano Park-and-Ride), to DFW International Airport, and other metros/cities in the Texoma region. The town/city of Sherman is served by Wilson N.

Sherman Independent School District City of Sherman Main article: List of citizens from Sherman, Texas Sherman, Texas bus accident a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Sherman city, Texas (revised 08-09-2012)".

Nolan Thompson, "SHERMAN RIOT OF 1930," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcs06), accessed June 04, 2015.

Grayson County Frontier Village, The History of Grayson County Texas, Hunter Publishing Co., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1979.

Redshaw, Peggy A., "Sherman, Texas, and the 1918 Pandemic Flu," East Texas Historical Journal, 51 (Spring 2013), 67 85.

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