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Whitesboro is a city in western Grayson County, Texas, and part of the Sherman–Denison metropolitan area.

The city is named for its founder, Ambrose B. White, who arrived with his family in 1848; the area was first known as "Wolfpath," and the old wolf path is now Whitesboro's Main Street.

White's Westview Inn served as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in the late 1850s and became the nucleus of the town.

A post office opened in 1860 under the name "Whitesborough"; the town was incorporated on June 2, 1873, with about 500 residents, and in 1887 the spelling was shortened to Whitesboro.

Whitesboro was a rough frontier town after the Civil War — shootings were reportedly so common on Saturday nights that women were prohibited from leaving their homes.

Train service on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad reached Whitesboro by 1879, and by the late 1880s the town had become a leading cotton-shipping point in Grayson County.

Since 1965, Whitesboro has hosted its annual Peanut Festival on the third Saturday of every October to honor local farmers and the peanut harvest, an event that draws some 30,000 visitors to the small town.

Whitesboro is about 12 miles south of Lake Texoma, one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, and U.S. Highways 82 and 377 both pass through the city.

Whitesboro's population was 3,793 in the 2010 census and grew to 4,074 in the 2020 census.