Denison

Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2007 was 24,103. It is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Denison was founded in 1872 in conjunction with the MKT or "Katy" depot. It was named after the wealthy Katy vice president George Denison. Because the town was established at the intersection of the MKT and the Red River (both importan... more

Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2007 was 24,103. It is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Denison was founded in 1872 in conjunction with the MKT or "Katy" depot. It was named after the wealthy Katy vice president George Denison. Because the town was established at the intersection of the MKT and the Red River (both important conduits of transportation in the industrial era), it came to be an important commercial center in the 19th century American West. During the phylloxera epidemic of the mid-1800s, which destroyed the vast majority of wine grapes in Europe, Denison horticulturalist T.V. Munson pioneered methods in creating phylloxera resistant vines, and earned induction into the French Legion of Honor, as well as sister city status for Denison and Cognac, France. In 1901 the first electric "Interurban" railway in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was... less