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SHERMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT

Fire Alarm Telegraph System - 1850's

Exhibit is on permanent loan courtesy of the City of Sherman.

FIBER ART

Handmade quilts from the museum collection c.1880. Texas shaped quilts done by local quilt artist in 1986 to commemorate the Texas Sesquicentennial. Fiber Art exhibit from Guatemala on loan from private collector.

HISTORY OF BLACK TEXANS-SINCE 1541

Stories and photographs depict the long history of Black immigration and assimilation in Texas and Grayson County. Memorabilia from Fred Douglas the First Black School in Sherman est. 1889.

THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL ROUTE est. 1858

150th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT

Victorian Parlor

Natural History

Grayson County Courthouse

General Sherman and Peter Grayson

Collection of photographs and newspapers regarding the 1930 riot which destroyed the Grayson County Courthouse built in 1876

Farm and Ranch Room

Various pieces of farm equipment

Diorama of a farm house kitchen

General Store

Cash register and various goods

Typewriters, boots and butter churns

Other Exhibits

Dora Alexander Talley(1879-1953)
National President of the Women's division of the Woodmen of the World; responsible for the construction of a widows' and orphans' home in Sherman, "Woodmen Circle Home." Erected in 1930 and closed in 1970.

Map corner

Oil on wood paintings by Texas artist James Swann, hung in the Carnegie in 1934

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