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Grayson County, established in 1846, has had seven courthouses, with three during 1847 to 1853, then successors built in 1853, 1859, 1876, and 1936. [ 1 ] The previous Grayson County Courthouse was burned by a lynch mob on May 9, 1930, killing a black man who had been accused of raping a white woman.
Grayson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 135,543. [1] The county seat is Sherman. [2] The county was founded in 1846 and is named after Peter Wagener Grayson, an attorney general of the Republic of Texas.
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. [5] The city's population in 2020 was 43,645. [6] It is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area, and is the largest city in the Texoma region of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.
The Old Grayson County Courthouse and Clerk's Office is a historic county courthouse located at Galax, Grayson County, Virginia.The Old Grayson County Courthouse was built in 1834, and consists of a two-story central block with flanking two-story wings and a one-story addition on the rear north side which was built in the 1870s and expanded in 1988.
Grayson County: 181: Sherman: 1846: Fannin County: Peter Wagener Grayson, an attorney general of the Republic of Texas 146,907: 934 sq mi (2,419 km 2) Gregg County: 183: Longview: 1873: Upshur County: John Gregg (1828–1864), a Confederate general during the Civil War 126,243: 274 sq mi (710 km 2) Grimes County: 185: Anderson: 1846: Montgomery ...
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Texas–Oklahoma border.Its population was 24,479 at the 2020 census, up from 22,682 at the 2010 census. [2]
Van Alstyne is a city in Grayson and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 3,046 at the 2010 census , [ 5 ] up from 2,502 at the 2000 census. The Grayson County portion of Van Alstyne is part of the Sherman – Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area .