Grayson County TXGenWeb

Magnolia Park Addition
Denison, Texas
March 28, 1919

Courtesy of Mark Grams

Sherman & Denison Interurban line ran along Mirick Avenue.
The Houston & Texas Central Railroad shown at top left.
"Corporation Line" in upper left, between Hanna & Bullock, was the city limits of Denison.

Plats are created before the houses exist. They map out where to put houses. This plat is Magnolia, named after the rows of magnolias planted by T. V. Munson. This plat was created after Munson's [horticulture business] was abandoned. Fannin was the through street before this plat. Fannin is one of the oldest roads, going all the way to the northeast corner of Sherman. Before this map, Mirick dead-ended at Acheson.
That whole neighborhood was created out of what once was T. V. Munson's horticulture center. He left it to Texas A&M University. A&M abandoned it because it was so far away, in the era of unpaved roads.
The famous grape hybrids were grown south of the Hanna house ["Vinita"]. The magnolias on Acheson Street were planted at the end of Mirick Avenue and the entrance to TV's horticulture center, which ran past Coffin to Star. In 1880, Fannin was the through street and Mirick stopped at Acheson. Ancestors of the Marsico and Patti families worked on the hybrid grapevines. - - - Doug Hoover

This plat stops right where Denison High School starts. Between Vinita and the corner of Hanna and Burrell, across from Denison High School, is where the historic hybrid grapes were cultivated.
T. V. Munson had from Acheson to Star under cultivation. After T. V. Munson was gone, vineyards were cultivated where Champion Cooler stands now and going south towards Spur 503.The street is called Vine Lane. It is possible that some of the wild vines growing in some of the vacant lots in that area are descendants of the hybrids. - - - Doug Hoover