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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: State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River: December 20, 1996
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.
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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.
The Fannin County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. Built in 1888-1889 of rough-cut local limestone from Gober by Scottish-born stonemasons Kane and Cormack, it was designed in the Second Empire style of architecture by Waco -based architect Wesley Clark Dodson (1829–1914) of the firm Dodson ...
In office 1834–1835: Preceded by: Miguel Arciniega: Succeeded by: José Ángel Navarro: In office 1841–1842: Preceded by: John William Smith: Succeeded by: Francis Guilbeau: Member of the San Antonio City Council; In office 1828–1833: Justice of the Peace of Bexar County, Texas; In office 1852–1856: County Judge of Wilson County, Texas ...