I Know they need more signs downtown. Half the time they are obscured from view by trees etc. The problem with the courthouse square is the justice center across the street , seems all the folks there take up so much parking. Can you imagine what it was like when hwy 75 north was on Travis Street! Judge Vaughn told me they had to pause whatever they were saying when the lights would change and traffic start up in the warm weather. By the way the old courthouse Court Rooms have been restored and are wonderful. The Library parking is marked (There are a few unmarked spaces there! Keep looking) due to the folks going to or working in the Federal Courthouse a block away. The library seemed to be the parking of choice ! We need a new library and some really good parking. They are always short staffed and in need of volunteers. I used to be a volunteer there. I can help: All county books are in Cabinet #5 , any librarian can be asked to open it for you. It contains, 1907 Plat Book you must see if you have anyone here that period. It is great fun and wonderful for seeing the layout of the school districts and land owners. In the back is a set of biographies with good Pictures on many. I left an index to the pictures there some time ago. the plat book Some various Church bio's and photo books of the county. Including Kentuckytown Baptist Church and you can check the card catalog for more. 3 large County History and biography books. A reddish brown one pub. by the Sherman Library in the 80 and two large Black ones written by the Frontier Village Volunteers in the early '80's. These are all indexed. There is an older one written by Landrum and Smith and it has a great crossindex in the middle of folks who lived in the county in 1860's. And a small older History book by Lucas Sanborn insurance Maps on microfilm and the Sherman one in book form are there. Covers, Denison, Sherman, Whitesboro, Whitewright, and Van Alstyne. Lots of census films, marriage from beginning to about 1911 .tax. probate, deeds etc. are there. There is an index to the local papers that was written in the mid 1930's. It covers from that time back to 1879. The newspaper is on film there. Large Collection of Obits. Reaching back to the 50's. A cemetery file that covers about 90% of the county and one notebook that is a surname index to the whole thing. However - Mike Cross has done a great job of uploading the county cemeteries to the internet so actually its easier to search from home. http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/Texas/grayson.html High School yearbooks are there for Sherman Way back and the City directories go back into the 1800's. They cover Denison also. The Death/Birth/Delayed births on microfilm are there 1903-1976 There is an index on the counter in the back of the Genealogy section. It is a rolodex type thing. It contains info on the Vertical Files about families that are locked in cabinets 1 - 3. These consist of things like Books about family names to folders of group sheets and notebooks. Anything someone wanted on file about a surname is locked up and you must request it to be unlocked. some of these files are quite large and some of the books great! Then there is another index that goes to the large Vertical Files that are locked in the metal cabinets to the west of the door in the Research room. They cover large folders about happenings in Grayson County, Important folks , Towns and things like schools, or such things as the Woodman of the World Home. (by the way its scrapbook is in the rare books room) Many old interesting books and magazines are in the rare books room. You can have someone bring something out to you. For instance the Confederate Veteran Magazines are all there. And someone was nice enough to publish the index to all of them. It is out on the regular shelves. The library has good info on Va., NC, SC, Georgia,Tennessee,Kentucky, and Texas of course. But not strong on Miss. or La. You can check ahead for materials in the card catalog: http://209.151.112.15/default.htm You can also search Dension Library from there. The Red River Museum has a large amount of Photos in its collection. Whitesboro Library has a good collection for folks on that side of the county and the Whitewright has some files also. As well as the local newspaper on microfilm. Others with good vertical files and interesting collections are the Van Alstyne Library and the Pottsboro one. You never know what will turn up. Susan in Texas ( Ps. We used to have a 'meter maid' that would have won the olympics. I dont' think I have seen her for the past year or two but MY GOODNESS. She power walked the downtown all day and I had her chalk mark my car when I was pulling out of the parking space to go home! First time I ever thought that chalk could be a letal weapon in someones hands!)