Sherman, Texas

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Texas Bound Train
Cory Morrow
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"I wanna see where that Red River Flows"
red dirt girl
Bo Phillips

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Buck Owens
country Pop: 63
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Geobel Reeves
country Pop: 1

Rivers & Roads in Song near Sherman

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Red River 50 songs Interstate 35 27 songs

History of Sherman

The Chip Factory That Opened in 2025 RoadyGoat

2025

Right here in Sherman, Texas Instruments started making computer chips in December 2025 at its newest semiconductor plant, a facility called SM1. Here's what makes that remarkable: they broke ground on an empty field in May 2022. So in about three and a half years, raw dirt became a working factory printing some of the most intricate objects humans build. And SM1 is just the beginning. It's the first of up to four connected fabs planned for this one site, SM1 through SM4, with up to forty billion dollars earmarked for Sherman alone. The plant makes 300-millimeter silicon wafers, the modern industry standard, thin polished discs that each carry thousands of chips. Think about the contradiction in that. A building you can see from the highway, raised in record time, exists to manufacture features far too small for your eye to ever see. Big, fast, and impossibly precise, all at once.

Why Bigger Circles Make Cheaper Chips RoadyGoat

A wafer is a thin, round, mirror-polished disc of silicon, and hundreds or thousands of identical chips get printed onto each one before it's sliced apart. The Sherman plant makes 300-millimeter wafers, about 12 inches across, a jump up from the older 200-millimeter standard, which was roughly 8 inches. Now here's the geometry that drives a whole industry. A circle's area grows with the square of its radius. So going from 200 to 300 millimeters is only 1.5 times the diameter, but about 2.25 times the area. That means more than twice as many chips come off each bigger wafer in roughly the same processing run. More chips per wafer means a lower cost per chip, and that is the entire reason the industry moved to bigger discs. But be clear about what bigger does not do. It does not shrink the transistors or make the chips faster. The win is cost and throughput, more chips per batch, not miniaturization.

Why a Single Speck of Dust Is a Disaster RoadyGoat

The features printed on a modern chip are far smaller than a single speck of dust, smaller even than a bacterium. So one stray particle landing on a wafer can short out a circuit or ruin a chip entirely. That's why chips are made in cleanrooms, with air filtered hundreds of times cleaner than an operating room. It's also why workers wear full-body bunny suits. The surprise is that the suit isn't there to protect the worker. It protects the chip from the human, because we shed skin flakes and tiny particles constantly. So how does a circuit even get onto the wafer? A process called photolithography. They shine light through a patterned mask, like a stencil, onto a light-sensitive coating on the wafer, printing the circuit pattern, then etch it in. Then they repeat that in dozens of layers, building the chip up bit by bit. These are the cleanest, most precise factories humans have ever built.

Bloody Bill Anderson - Sherman Winter Quarters

1863

In the winter of 1863, William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson and Quantrill's Raiders wintered in Sherman, Texas. Anderson subsequently split from Quantrill here and returned to Missouri, where he led the Centralia Massacre of 1864 — the most decisive guerrilla victory of the Civil War. He was killed in battle a month later, a silk cord on his person with 53 knots, one for each man he claimed to have killed by his own hand.

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Quantrill, William Clarke

1863

William Clarke Quantrill (Charley Hart, Charles William Quantrill, and Billy Quantrill), Civil War guerrilla leader, was born at Canal Dover, Ohio, on July 31, 1837, to Thomas Henry and Caroline Cornelia (Clarke) Quantrill. He taught school briefly in Ohio and Illinois; in 1857 he moved to Kansas, and in 1858 he accompanied an army provision train to Utah. At Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere in the territory, Quantrill was associated with a number of murders and thefts. He fled a warrant for his arrest in Utah in 1860 and returned to Kansas. In December he joined a group in an effort to free the slaves of a Missouri man; he betrayed the plans, and three of the abolitionists were killed. Quantrill collected a group of renegades in the Kansas-Missouri area. He fought with Confederate forces at the battle of Wilson's Creek in Oakhills, Missouri, in August 1861 but soon thereafter began irregular independent operations. Quantrill and his band attacked Union camps, patrols, and settlements. In November 1862 the group murdered twelve unarmed teamsters. Union authorities declared them outlaws. Quantrill's role in the capture of Independence, however, led to his being commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army. Shortly thereafter, he sought a regular command under the Confederacy Partisan Ranger Act, but his reputation for brutality preceded him, and his request was denied, although he was promoted to the rank of colonel. In mid-October 1863 Quantrill and his band crossed the Red River at Colbert's Ferry and established winter camp on Mineral Springs Creek fifteen miles northwest of Sherman. During his first winter in Grayson County Quantrill and his men may have acted as a police force against cattle thieves who raided farms and ranches from Indian Territory. This winter camp was necessary, in part, for Quantrill's men to escape retribution for two of their recent affairs, the first being their infamous sack of Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, during which they looted the town and shot approximately 180 men and boys. Weeks later, while on their way to Texas, Quantrill's well-mounted and armed force of 400 men came upon the 100-man headquarters escort of Union general James G. Blunt. Quantrill's band attacked on October 6, 1863, and killed eighty men and wounded eighteen in the Baxter Springs Massacre. Many were murdered after having surrendered. The raiders also captured several fully loaded supply wagons. Quantrill reported at Bonham on October 26 to Gen. Henry E. McCulloch . One of the officers described Quantrill as standing about five feet ten inches, weighing about 150 pounds, with fair hair, blue eyes, and a florid complexion. Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith , commander of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy, approved of Quantrill and ordered McCulloch to use Quantrill's men to help round up the increasing number of deserters and conscription-dodgers in North Texas. Quantrill's men captured but few and killed several, whereupon McCulloch pulled them off this duty; McCulloch sent them to track down retreating Comanches from a recent raid on the northwest frontier. They did so for nearly a week with no success. Quantrill is credited with ending a near-riot of county "war widows" who were convinced that the Confederate commissary in Sherman was withholding from them such "luxury goods" as coffee, tea, and sugar. During this winter Quantrill's lieutenant, William (Bloody Bill) Anderson , took some of the men to organize his own group. With two such groups in the area, residents of Grayson and Fannin counties became targets for raids, and acts of violence proliferated so much that regular Confederate forces had to be assigned to protect residents from the activities of the irregular Confederate forces. Finally, General McCulloch determined to rid North Texas of Quantrill's influence. On March 28, 1864, when Quantrill appeared at Bonham as requested, McCulloch had him arrested on the charge of ordering the murder of a C

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Sherman Riot of 1930

1930

The Sherman riot of 1930 was one of the major incidents of racial violence that occurred in the United States at the onset of the Great Depression , when lynching and other lawless acts increased with economic problems. The incident initiated a flurry of racial violence in Texas. White tenant farmers had exhibited hostility to Blacks throughout the county. As county seat, Sherman was the county's banking, industrial, and educational center. The Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching reported in 1931 that Sherman had felt the onset of the depression more keenly than representative communities of similar size in Texas. The prevalent abhorrence of miscegenation, together with the sensation surrounding the rape of a White woman by a Black man, provided the context of the violence. A Black farm hand named George Hughes, described by acquaintances as "crazy," was accused of raping a young woman, who was never publicly identified. Hughes admitted that he had come to the farm five miles southeast of Sherman on May 3, 1930, in search of the woman's husband, who owed him wages. Hughes left when the woman said that her husband was in Sherman but soon returned with a shotgun, demanded his wages, and raped the woman. He shot at unarmed pursuers and at the patrol car of the deputy sheriff who later arrived to investigate the disturbance. He then surrendered. On Monday, May 5, Hughes was indicted for criminal assault by a special meeting of the grand jury in the Fifteenth District Court. County attorney Joe P. Cox set the trial date for Friday, May 9, and promised a speedy trial. In the days preceding the trial, rumors spread about the case, among them that Hughes had mutilated the woman's throat and breasts and that she was not expected to live. Medical examination of the woman and of Hughes showed the rumors to be false. Officers removed Hughes from the jail to an undisclosed location as a precaution against mob violence, but rumors persisted that he was still there. A few people were taken through the jail to show that he was not there, but an unconvinced mob gathered outside nightly. In the early morning of Friday, May 9, Capt. Francis A. (Frank) Hamer of the Texas Rangers , assisted by two other rangers and one police sergeant, escorted Hughes to the county courthouse. County Sheriff Arthur Vaughan and deputies stood on duty in the courtroom and corridors. Only those connected to the case were allowed to attend the proceedings. Nevertheless, a crowd from all over the region gathered outside the building and filled the corridors from the main entrance to the courtroom doors. During the jury selection and beginning of the trial, the noise led officers to clear the stairway and corridor leading to the courtroom. In the late morning the crowd began to stone the courthouse. An American flag was carried around the grounds to incite the men to action. The jury was sworn in at noon. Then Cox read the indictment, to which Hughes pleaded guilty. The first witness had begun testimony when the crowd forced the doors to the courtroom corridor, whereupon the rangers fired three warning shots. The jury was sent from the room, and Hughes was taken to the district court vault as the rangers used tear gas to disperse the mob. Firemen provided ladders for others in the trial room. A few minutes before one o'clock the mob started toward the courtroom again, and again the rangers resorted to tear gas. Firemen again helped women and children escape the building with the use of ladders. District Judge R. M. Carter went into conference at about one o'clock and declared that he would likely order a change of venue, but at two o'clock he had not decided where to send the case. Captain Hamer told him that he did not believe that the trial could be held in Sherman without bloodshed. About 2:30 P.M., two youths threw an open can of gasoline into the county tax collector's office through a broken window. A fire started and quickly spread through the building.

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Hilger, John Allen [Jack]

1942

John Allen Hilger was a United States Air Force officer and deputy commander of the Doolittle Raid of Japan during World War II. He was born the third of four sons of John Frederick Hilger and Emma Viola (Dye) Hilger, on January 11, 1909, in Sherman, Texas. The son of a stone cutter, Jack Hilger was raised in Sherman and educated in the city public school system. In high school, he was active in the pep squad, the glee club, football, and the school newspaper. Hilger graduated from Sherman High School in 1926. Hilger enrolled at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (present-day Texas A&M University) in September 1926. At College Station, he studied mechanical engineering and became a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition to his academic studies, he was active in the school's military program. With three years of college under his belt, Hilger left school in the fall of 1929. Most likely, fiscal issues contributed to this action. On March 1, 1931, John Allen Hilger married Ina Mae Smith. The marriage failed. In the fall of 1931 Hilger re-enrolled at Texas A&M and received his B. S. degree in mechanical engineering in June 1932. Along with a degree, Hilger also received his commission as a second lieutenant of infantry in the United States Army Reserve. Early in his military career, John Hilger made moves to become an active duty army aviator. In February 1933, he entered the U. S. Army Air Corps flying school as a cadet. After successfully completing flight training, he received his wings in the Army Air Corps in February 1934 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in February 1935. With more than two years of active duty, Hilger received a regular army commission in October 1936. After additional pilot training, Lieutenant Hilger was assigned to March Field near Riverside, California. During his service at March Field, he served as the assistant base adjutant and was in charge of the base photographic section. While on this assignment, Hilger married Virginia Hope Botterud in Los Angeles in March 1937. Lieutenant Hilger was reassigned to McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, in May 1940. While on this assignment, he served as the commander of the 89th Reconnaissance Squadron. During this time at McChord Field, he was also promoted to captain and then to major. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the 89th Squadron took part in flying antisubmarine patrols in the region in early 1942. Hilger was promoted to lieutenant colonel in March 1942. In March 1942 Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle selected Hilger as a pilot and as his deputy commander for a top secret air attack on Japan. The Doolittle Raid involved the launching of sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet at a point about 500 miles from Tokyo. The original plan called for a strike on selected Japanese targets with the aircraft then proceeding to friendly air bases in China. The eighty men that made up the Doolittle Raiders were all volunteers. With a reputation as a no-nonsense perfectionist, Hilger had been recommended to serve as Doolittle's second in command. Hilger took part in the training operations for the men and planes assembled at Eglin Field in Florida. The training was fast-paced, and a high priority was given to pilots practicing short takeoffs. By April 1, aircraft and airman had relocated to California on the West Coast. Consisting of eighty airmen and sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers, the Doolittle raid was launched from the deck of the Hornet in the morning of April 18, 1942. Fearing a Japanese picket ship had spotted the task force, Doolittle ordered the operation to begin before they reached their original destination point. Major Hilger piloted aircraft fourteen. His crew had been assigned the city of Nagoya, a major industrial center, as its target. Hilger directed his plane toward three specific areas: an army barrack complex, a military depot, and an oil s

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Great Sherman Storm of 1896

1896

In the late afternoon of Friday, May 15, 1896, a disastrous tornado swept Sherman, killing about 66 persons, injuring many others, and causing severe property damage. The twister touched down near here, then cut a 2-mile-long path through the city. The same funnel and several smaller ones struck at other locations in the area. Most of the storm's victims were buried in this cemetery. After the tragedy, citizens of Sherman and neighboring towns helped with the rebuilding, and relief contributions were sent from many distant places.

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Pioneer Cotton Seed Oil Mill

1871

Here the Sherman Cotton Oil Company was created by John Clement Tassey between 1871-1879, to become, at one time, largest of its kind in the world. Company was at first housed in frame buildings. In 1891 a permanent building was erected; spacious engine room contained white marble slab floor, oak paneled walls, red brick fireplace of English design, and a carved oak staircase. The new facility had a peak capacity of over 400 tons of cotton seed a day. By 1893, was called "largest cotton seed oil mill in the world" in geography textbooks; Texas "Almanac," 1904. Oil from this plant went to ports throughout the world. Tassey was known in Europe as "Mr. Sherman," and Sherman as the city "where the oil comes from." A pioneer in use of cotton seed for edible purposes; in 1902 a preparation of cotton seed oil for cooking was added to company's production. Smaller mills began competing for available seed; by 1903 plant closed because of inability to secure sufficient cotton seed to operate economically. It was reorganized and reopened in 1913 as the Interstate Cotton Oil Refining company. The original permanent building, facing Pecan Street, is now a part of this modern Sherman plant. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1967 Incise in base: Erected by Anderson, Clayton & Co. Foods Division

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