GRAYSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN SHERMAN, TX

The sharecroppers and tenant farmers who cheered as the courthouse fire began to burn are not the taxpayers who were burdened with rebuilding it.

Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

March 22nd 2020
THE GOOD FOLKS OF GRAYSON COUNTY The county seat of Grayson County is in Sherman, Texas. It was a prosperous agricultural community in a cotton growing region. After WWI ended cotton prices began to falter as cotton supplies exceeded demand. Throughout the 1920s the cotton market failed to recover and the sharecroppers and tenant farmers became impoverished. In 1929 the Great Depression ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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