Around farms and ranches all over Fannin County, you can find barbed wire. The simple fencing is as common to see as the grass and the trees and yet it played a pivotal role in shaping the American frontier. Currently, there are about 240 different styles of barbed wire on display at the Fannin County Museum of History. The Museum has also partnered with the new Deuces Wild Western Wear store located at 113 W. Sam Rayburn Drive in Bonham, Texas to display a panel of barbed wire.

To longtime residents and newcomers alike, Hickory Bar-B-Que was much more than a diner and more like a friend until a fire damaged the building and caused the business to close. For almost a half century, this family business has been woven into the very fabric of Bonham. Our fabric smelled like hickory wood on the smoker and we wore it proudly. A celebration of the Blevins family and Hickory Bar-B-Que is set for 5:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Roy Floyd Community Center in Bonham.

Around 2001, I started coming to visit Don Blevins at the great big round table in the middle of the store. I would love to sit by him and sink in the knowledge that he would give me on all the experiences that he had accomplished in the many years before and during his Hickory BBQ career. That is when it all started with every Wednesday meeting of the boys with Don.

It was 10 minutes past 10:00 p.m. on Friday, May 28, 1880 when a tornado brought death and devastation to Savoy, Texas. It happened so quickly that the hotel keeper in Savoy said he reached for his pantaloons when he heard the cyclone approaching, but in what he described as five seconds of terror, the town was almost completely destroyed before he could even get them on. graphic designed by Freepik

On Tuesday, May 14, relatives of former Fannin County Judge Choice Moore presented the County with a gavel made from a log from the first Fannin County Courthouse, which was built at Warren near Red River in 1839, during the Republic of Texas times.

"Heavy Date Over Germany" was the quarterly program of the North Texas World War II History Roundtable. Jewellee Jordan Kuenstler, director of the Museum of the West Texas Frontier in Stamford, Texas, will present the life and times of B-17 tail gunner Ray Perry. He flew missions over various Nazi targets in 1944 and 1945. The program will be at 7 p.m. April 25 at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville. Members and public are invited.

Col. James Tarleton, who is buried in the Inglish Cemetery in Bonham, fought at San Jacinto in the Texas War for Independence.

Congressman Pat Fallon (TX-04) is honored to award Mr. William "Bill" Douglass with the Congressional Patriot Award. Mr. Douglass is a distinguished American and is the first Grayson County resident to receive the prestigious award.

John Wesley Hardin was one of the most violent figures of a violent age. Born near Bonham to a Methodist preacher in 1853, he quickly moved to a life of crime.

During the Texas War for Independence Colonel James Fannin (after whom Fannin County was later named) commanded over 300 Texas troops at Goliad. This was after the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Other soldiers joined these troops at Goliad. Facing overwhelming force, Fannin surrendered to the Mexican Army, expecting that his troops would soon be released. On March 27, Palm Sunday, between 425 and 445 Texians were marched into an open field and executed.

The Fannin County Museum of History is delighted to have received a donation of a 600-set collection of stereoscope images which was produced by the Keystone View Company for use in classrooms. The donation was from the family of Glenna Langford, who taught 4th grade in Bonham from 1966 to 1990.

Bonham recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first train into town, so we wanted to run this 90-year-old article in the Bonham Daily Favorite about the first train pulling into Bonham on October 12, 1873.

Good gifts for a history lover! The Museum is open noon - 4:00 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday and is located at 1 Main Street, just a few blocks should of the Courthouse Square.