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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.
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
Fannin County is a county in the far northeast of the U.S. state of Texas, on the border with Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,662, [1] making it the 87th most populous county in Texas. [2] The entirety of Fannin County is a part of the Bonham Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Dallas-Fort Worth Combined Statistical Area.
Rayburn went to co-educational East Texas Normal College (now East Texas A&M University) in Commerce, Texas, in 1900 with $25 (around $750 in 2020) that his father saved up to help take care of his first few months of college expenses. To help cover tuition and room and board, Rayburn rang the school bell to signal the end of classes and swept ...
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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 ...
When former Civil War general in the Union Army of Lew Wallace (1827–1905, served 1878–1881), took office as the newly appointed 11th Territorial Governor of New Mexico on October 1, 1878, (by 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893, served 1877–1881), he proclaimed an amnesty for all those involved in the bitter feud of the last ...