City of Sherman

Sidney Sherman was a manufacturer before he was a soldier. Born in Massachusetts in 1805, he started the first company to make cotton bagging by machine at Newport, Kentucky, and in 1835 sold the plant to equip fifty-two volunteers for Texas. The Handbook says they carried the only flag the Texans had at San Jacinto. After annexation he organized the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which built the first rail line in the state. The Handbook calls him one of the state's earliest railroad promoters.

What the plaque says

City of Sherman Settled in 1846. Named in honor of General Sidney Sherman 1805-1873. Commander of the left wing of the Texas Army at the Battle of San Jacinto. Member of Congress of the Republic of Texas 1842-1843. Rapid growth and prosperity followed its incorporation May 12, 1873.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 10 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Eisenhower State Park — 14 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.
• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 23 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.

More markers nearby

• Lee Simmons — 1.4 mi
• The Rev. J.M. Binkley — 1.4 mi
• Judge C. C. Binkley — 1.4 mi
• Jesse P. Loving — 1.4 mi