On April 26, 1919, students at North Texas State Normal School (present-day University of North Texas) gathered in the basketball gymnasium th… Read MoreLooking back at North Texas students killed in action in WWI and WWII
Rob and Evelyn Neale moved to a Tioga farm after their wedding in 1908. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, 29-year-old Rob’s draft car…
Texas was a wild place after the Civil War. Cowboys drove longhorn cattle worth $4 a head in Texas to Northern states, where they were worth $…
On Wednesday, March 8, 1922, a College of Industrial Arts graduate (present-day Texas Woman’s University) married a North Texas State Normal S…
An Easter eve tradition began when bonfires lit the hills around Fredericksburg on April 3, 1847. This was the first recorded Easter observanc…
The Denton Woman’s Club Building sits in Quakertown Park, in the heart of downtown Denton.
People may think the 10 Black women and 10 white women in the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship just focused on school desegregation. The …
March is Women’s History Month, and the 2023 theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”
Texas faced nine years of turmoil after the Civil War ended in 1865. Reconstruction administered by the U.S. Army was terrible. White Texans h…
John Robert Logan moved to Texas around 1884 from Logan, Kentucky. By 1896, he lived in Quakertown, Denton’s thriving middle-class Black commu…
Many Americans, especially in the South, eat the holy trinity of lucky foods — black-eyed peas, greens and cornbread — on New Year’s Day. Trad…
George Bragg was 8 years old when his family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1934. He joined the Birmingham Boys Choir, igniting a lifelong p…
Betty Kimble, who helped tackle many of Denton's racial inequalities in the 1960s, is a direct descendant of Thomas Cook, whose 19th-century blacksmith shop was unearthed near Bolivar several years ago.
Denton’s recorded history began in 1839, when the Republic of Texas gave William Neill 640 acres for his service in the Texas Revolutionary Wa…
While World War I raged, hunger stalked Europeans whose countries were at war. Americans also suffered the consequences of military requisitio…
Bushey Street in Southeast Denton is quiet, although it once bustled with activity.
Denton’s present Courthouse on the Square may seem like it’s always been there, but it had three predecessors.
Some people are in Denton briefly, but their accomplishments make us want to claim them. That’s the case with Caro Crawford Brown. She’s liste…
People walked back and forth in downtown Denton as the owners of various historical and vacant buildings answered questions from residents abo…
Over 30 years ago, development of the Javelin anti-tank missile began in Denton.
The Peters Colony settled North Texas through four empresario, or entrepreneurial, land grants between the Republic of Texas and investors. Ac…