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The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1889. [3] It is named for Sidney Sherman, who fought in the Texas Revolution. Though both Sherman County and Sherman, Texas, are named for the same person, the city of Sherman is located in Grayson County, about 430 miles to the southeast.
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.
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.
Stratford is a town and county seat of Sherman County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,939 at the 2020 Census, [4] down from 2,017 in 2010. [5] History
The Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county—Grayson—in North Texas, anchored by the cities of Sherman and Denison. According to the 2010 U.S. census, the MSA had a population of 120,877; according to 2021 estimates, it had a population of 139,336. [2]
The lynching of George Hughes, which led to what is called the Sherman Riot, took place in Sherman, Texas, in 1930. [1] An African-American man accused of rape and who was tried in court died on May 9 when the Grayson County Courthouse was set on fire by a White mob, who subsequently burned and looted local Black-owned businesses.
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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.