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Loe's Highport The following
few articles show the plans made as early as April 1930 to put in a dam
in
Grayson county to form a reservoir, and that this lake was named “Lake
Texoma”, destined to become an economic
boon to the area, and also meant the end of some communities along the
river
such as Hagerman and Woodville.
   The Denison
Press July 25, 1942 Hagerman to Become a Memory, Folks Moving After thirteen years a possibility the Denison dam has become a reality, making the sacrifice of a Grayson county township necessary. For Hagerman, the little town located approximately sixteen miles west of Denison, founded by the Smith brothers from Fordyke, Ark., in 1904 and named for James Hagerman, chief attorney for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad at the time, will ....become a memory. Mr. and Mrs. Audie Austin Harshbarger were the first residents to move this week, leaving the town where he had been postman for 24 years, to Pottsboro. A pioneer couple of 30 years, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jewell have moved their household goods to Whitesboro and the Elbert Smith family are now residing in Denison. More families have made plans to move. Plans for the removal of the post office, school and churches have not yet been formulated.  Loe's Highport Waterways Susan Hawkins © 2024 |