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Four members of Preston Trail Chapter, NSDAR in Pottsboro performed their chapter America 250! skit at the Denison History in the Hall event on February 19, 2026 for a packed house at Say When. The reenactors portrayed Martha Washington, Betsy Ross,...

History of Pioneer Couple Almost Lost in Pet Cemetery The Preston Trail Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the Preston Bend Cemetery Association worked together on a historic preservation project to relocate the hi...

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Come find a great deal on something you will love, and support a good cause at the same time! A perfect opportunity for that occurs on Saturday and Sunday, March 5th & 6th, 8 am – 5 pm, when the Preston Trail Chapter NSDAR of Pottsboro holds a HU...

Pottsboro, Texas - Preston Trail Chapter Historic Preservation Committee Chair, Lisa Lettie and members were greatly honored to receive a 1st Place Certificate of Appreciation from the Texas Society for their project of historical preservation at t...

Pottsboro, Texas - Come hear First Lady Martha Washington’s reminiscences at the Preston Trail NSDAR Meeting at 6 p.m. on March 7, 2019. Representing Martha Washington in period dress will be Preston Trail chapter member Margaret Alverson. ‘Marth...

Preston Trail NSDAR has been proud to be involved in many activities this week concerning Constitution week. They have had the honor of six (6) Daughters read books about the Constitution to K-4th grade while dressed in Revolutionary costumes to fiv...

There are two documents of paramount importance to American history: the Declaration of Independence, which forged our national identity, and the United States Constitution, which set forth the framework for the federal government that is still in us...

Pottsboro, Texas - The Preston Trail chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution met on the evening of Thursday, September 6th, with Brian Hander giving an informative presentation about one of Denison’s well-known early ci...

Pottsboro, Texas – The Preston Trail NSDAR hosted their yearly awards banquet on May 3, 2018. The meeting was presided over by Regent Vicki McComack, with the assistance of all the chapter officers: 1st Vice Regent, Natalie Bauman; 2nd Vice Regent...

Pottsboro, Texas - There will be a humorous and interesting program given at the March 1st meeting of the Preston Trail NSDAR meeting. The title of the program will be “Southern Fried.” The speaker for the March 1st meeting will be Catherine Fowle...

Old Farmer Beats Off Two Armed Attackers on Preston Road - By Natalie Bauman - We have all heard of Preston Road. It has been a means of travel here for almost 200 years, and perhaps longer, by other names. It has been used as an Indian trai...

Pottsboro, Texas - There was an interesting program given at the February 1st meeting of the Preston Trail NSDAR meeting. The title of the program was “The Preservation of Historic Preston Bend Tombstones.” Ken Smith was the speaker and is a Civil...

Pottsboro, Texas - There was a program given concerning domestic violence in the Wild West in Pottsboro at the Preston Trail NSDAR monthly meeting on January 4, 2018. Surprisingly, considering the seriousness of the subject matter, it was very en...

Pottsboro– Preston Trail Chapter, NSDAR Pottsboro, Texas awarded Miss Sienna Wideman, the winner of the NSDAR American History Essay Contest for the 2017 - 2018 school year, a bronze metal and a certificate. Miss Wideman came in with the high score...

Pottsboro, Texas – “We wish the speaker could have gone on for hours!” These were some of the comments made by those attending the Preston Trail NSDAR monthly meeting on November 4, 2017. The program which was so appreciated by the listeners was...

Pottsboro, Texas – The Preston Trail NSDAR is planning to conduct a monthly meeting with an interesting, informative program on Thursday night, November 2, 2017. The subject of the program is a review of the book “The Smithsonian’s History of Amer...

SHERMAN, TEXAS—The second annual Texoma-area Nonprofit Symposium will be held Wednesday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to noon at Austin College in Wright Campus Center Room 254, featuring a panel discussion on effective partnerships, “Collaboration, Community...

State governments love sin. Well, maybe not the sin itself, but they certainly love the revenue generated from so-called ‘sin taxes.’ The most heavily taxed vice involves tobacco products, which produced nearly $17 billion in revenue to state coffers...