20 The map of Fannin County made by the Texas and Pacific Railway
Company c.
1875 shows the J. Loring surveys in the extreme southern part
of the county and just east of the site of Ladonia as that town appears
on present-day maps. An advertisement in the Northern
Standard
of
May 29, 1844, called the attention of prospective bidders to the fact that
the contract for opening the part of the National Road between the Trinity
and Sulphur rivers would be let at John Loring's house on July 1, 1844.
The contract for the remainder of the road was to be opened for bids in
Paris on July 10.
