Audie Murphy's Hometown

On June 15, 1945, several thousand people packed the little square in Farmersville to welcome home a hometown boy who had become a legend. Audie Murphy had enlisted at the Greenville post office on his eighteenth birthday and gone on to fight across North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France, earning every U.S. Army decoration for valor — including the Medal of Honor — to become the most-decorated American soldier of World War II. Life magazine put his Farmersville homecoming on its cover. This short walk around the onion-capital square traces the town that raised him: the founding marker, the bank, the lodge, and the buildings that stood on these blocks when a grateful nation came to honor one of its own. Look for the spot where the crowd gathered, and imagine the noise.