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Pages in category "1837 establishments in the Republic of Texas" ... Austin County, Texas; B. Bastrop County, Texas; Bonham, Texas; C. Colorado County, Texas ...
June 5, 1972 (1.5 mi (2.4 km). W of Bonham on U.S. 82: Bonham: State Historic Site, State Antiquities Landmark, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark : 7: State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River
Bonham is a city and is the county seat of Fannin County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 10,408 at the 2020 census. [6] James Bonham (the city's namesake) sought the aid of James Fannin (the county's namesake) at the Battle of the Alamo. Bonham is part of the Texoma region in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma.
The county was named for James Fannin, [3] who commanded the group of Texans killed in the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution. James Bonham (the county seat's namesake) sought Fannin's assistance for the Battle of the Alamo, but Fannin was unable to provide it. The county was created in 1837 and organized the next year.
Robert M. Coleman (1793 – July 1, 1837) was a Texan and later American politician, soldier, and aide-de-camp to Sam Houston.Coleman was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, a Colonel, and a transitional founder of the Republic of Texas into the United States as a constituent state.
The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum is a public research center, library, and museum at 800 West Sam Rayburn Drive in Bonham, Texas.It was built in 1957 as a working library and research center for Sam Rayburn (1882-1961), the influential United States Congressman who holds the record as the longest-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Thomas Bell received 2,000 acres of land from the Republic of Texas in 1837. It is known that a Thomas Bell was living with his family in Austin County in 1844. [2] Since a new county seat to replace San Felipe was desired, he along with his brother James Bell donated the land on which Bellville was founded in 1846.
Map of the Lake Creek Settlement (1830s -1840s) in Texas. The Lake Creek Settlement (ca. 1830s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Second Colony, located in Mexican Texas, and later the Republic of Texas after it gained independence in 1836.