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Mile Marker Grayson County, Texas Mile
markers, aka milestones, were concrete pillars placed along a road, railway, canal or boundaries at
intervals of one mile in the early 1900s, to indicate the distance in miles to or from a given point.
The mileage is the distance from a fixed beginning point
- the courthouse in Sherman. In 1924 the State Highway
Department instituted a system where permanent concrete mileposts were
placed on state highways. The mileposts are up to 5' tall and 4" thick or more.
Cars would stop and honk their horns to alert any horses and carriages that were in the area. In the United States the numbers along the highway usually measure the distance to the southern or western state line. Often the exits are numbered according to the nearest milepost. Benjamin Franklin & mile markers 2 Mile Marker ~ East Sherman Street 2 Mile Marker ~ Moore Street, Sherman 4 Mile Marker ~ Kreager Road, Sherman 5 Mile Marker ~ Plainview Road, Sherman 5 Mile Marker ~ Farmington Road 5 Mile Marker ~ Elliott Road, Sherman 6 Mile Marker ~ Bethany Road, Sherman 1935-1937 WPA Marker ~ Hwy. 121 & Bethel-Cannon Road 1946 Survey Marker ~ King & Crockett streets, Sherman City Limit Mile Marker ~ corner of Houston & Tolbert streets, Sherman "King of Trails" Mile Marker ~ South Scullin & West Hanna, Denison 
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