Highway history of Sherman-Denison TX
^ date reposted to this blog Apr. 04, 2025: originally posted to my old blog Mar. 07, 2026: most recent update The main purpose of this article is to discuss the history of the US routes in the Texoma area. It is not my intention to review every state highway and farm-to-market route. Nevertheless, I do mention several of them in this article, but only those that somehow relate to the history of the US routes. When the US routes were commissioned in late 1926, US 75 was initially the only designation that served the Sherman-Denison area (at the time US 69 went only as far south as Kansas City, and US 82 did not yet exist). That was the condition illustrated on both of the following maps, from the early- and mid-1930s: c. 1931, Clason c. 1934, Rand McNally The current alignment of US 75 (which bypasses Denison to the north and west) was not built until about 1994. Originally, heading south from Oklahoma, US 75 followed what is now US 69 into Denison, but instead of curving onto Aus...