Butterfield Overland Mail Sherman Strongbox — Grayson County

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Butterfield Overland Mail Sherman Strongbox — Grayson County

Lost Treasure TX • Grayson County County
Description
Sherman legend of unrecovered Butterfield Overland Mail specie — when Sherman became a distribution point for Texas settlements after the southern route opened in 1858.
Historical Notes
Sherman was designated a station on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in 1858. The semiweekly service ran from St. Louis and Memphis through northern Texas to San Francisco until March 1861. Early in 1859 Sherman was made a distribution point through which Texas settlements received postal service. The route passed through Sherman fifteen miles east of Diamond's station (near Whitesboro) and crossed the Red River at Colbert's Ferry eight miles below Preston. Stage-line folklore imagines paymaster strongboxes and express pouches cached when the southern route was terminated in 1861. Coordinates mark downtown Sherman, county seat since 1846.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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