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Bonham, Texas
Attractions & Landmarks
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Sam
Rayburn House Museum
Photo courtesy TxHC at English Wikipedia |
The Sam
Rayburn House Museum:
This is Mr. Rayburn's residence built in 1916. Original furnishings
and personal items.
8 - 5 Tuesday-Friday and 9 - 5 on Sat. Closed Sunday and Monday
(903) 583-5558
http://www.thc.state.tx.us.html
Sam
Rayburn's Home by Bob Bowman
"A visit to Bonham should start with a stop at the Sam Rayburn
House Museum on U.S. Highway 82 on the west side of town."...
more
Clyde
W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Home
1300 Seven Oaks Road, Bonham, Texas.
Lt.
Clyde "Sparky" Cosper by John Troesser
Sam Rayburn
Library: Just west of Downtown Bonham, the library contains
memorabilia and furnishings from the Washington office of one of
the country's most powerful and influential Speakers of the House.
Second only to his personal friend LBJ, Rayburn was the most visible
Texan in US Government, even surpassing Uvalde's "Cactus Jack" Gardner
who was FDR's Vice President.
Monday through Friday 10 - 5, Saturday 1 - 5, Sunday 2 - 5.
903-583-2455
Fannin
County Museum: One Main Street 903-583-8042.
Hours: September to March Tuesday through Saturday noon to 4.
April to August Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 4.
Formerly on the third floor of the courthouse, the Museum now resides
in the restored Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot.
Fort Inglish
Park: A replica of the original settlement in 1837 that eventually
became Bonham. W. Sam Rayburn Drive. 903-583-3441.
Bonham
State Park
Less than 4 miles from Bonham
Coffee Mill
Lake: Off FM 409. 15 miles northeast of Bonham. Caddo National
Grassland Wildlife Management Area
Book Hotel Here › Bonham
Hotels
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Victorian
Architecture in Bonham
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, April 2006 |
Bonham Chronicles:
James
Bonham - The Alamo's brave messenger by Murray Montgomery
Lt.
Clyde "Sparky" Cosper by John Troesser
B-17 Pilot, 367th Bomber Group, Hometown: Dodd
City, Texas
"A B-17 crashed near the town of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire,
England on November 13, 1943. The only thing that prevented the
plane from landing directly on the town, was the Herculean effort
of the man at the controls....."
MacPhelan
Reese, Sam Rayburn, and the Rayburn Library by Mike Cox
Savoy
Male and Female College by Mike Cox ("Texas Tales")
When graduates of the long-extinct Savoy Male and Female College
gathered for their first reunion in 1938, several of the men did
a little reminescing about the Indians fights they had back in the
day...
Flagpole
by Mike Cox ("Texas Tales")
This story is about a mystery involving the flag staff that once
stood at Camp Howze, a sprawling World War II Army base at Gainesville...
Tom
Bean by John Troesser
The
Hardin Brothers by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical")
More than 110 years have passed since East Texas outlaw John Wesley
Hardin was shot down in an El Paso saloon, but he remains one of
the most intriguing badmen in history... John Wesley, named for
the founder of Methodism, was born at Bonham in Fannin County on
May 26, 1853...
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High School,
Bonham, Texas
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
High School,
Bonham, Texas
Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
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Bonham
Texas postcard, circa 1907 |
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