Denton County farmers, especially those who grew cotton, enjoyed their most lucrative year in 1920. Read More
Denton is an Old West town that became a city.
Houses provide more than shelter; they chronicle people’s lives.
Denton’s temperature hovered around 25 degrees on Dec. 24, 1921, as 440 children and their families gathered around the large cedar Christmas …
Frank Craft’s legacy lives in the houses he built in Denton.
“You have no business being up here,” the commanding officer bellowed at Arthur McNitzky. “Go back.” Denton’s Company M was on the World War I…
Most Americans believe Thanksgiving celebrates a 1621 harvest feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shared by 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag natives…
The I.O.O.F. Cemetery on the corner of Carroll Boulevard and Eagle Drive may have an odd name, but no one thought that 100 years ago when it s…
The Rev. William Bates moved to Denton in 1851. He and his wife, Susan Wright, had 10 children. He was a prolific circuit preacher who brought…
Herschel Evans was born in Denton on March 9, 1909. His parents, Lee L. and Laura Evans, were in their 40s when he was born. He had one older …
Ray Peterson was born in Denton in April 1935 to parents Harvey and Meredith Lynch Peterson, who lived at 1224 Panhandle St. Meredith Peterson…
The temperature in Denton on Sunday, July 8, 1860, was at least 100 degrees. Residents, like the crops, were parched. The city of Denton was o…
A storm rolled through Denton on Sunday, April 30, 1961. By 10:15 p.m., raging winds wreaked havoc on nearly every structure in the city of 26…
On Saturday, Oct. 19, 1996, at 3 p.m., a crowd gathered at Denton High School’s auditorium for C.H. Collins’ funeral to honor a coach who touc…
A 51-year-old apartment manager was booked into the Denton City Jail on Thursday morning for allegedly stealing money from her employer.
Alexandre Hogue was born in 1898 in Memphis, Missouri, to the Rev. Charles Lehman and Mattie Hogue. The family moved to Denton on Elm Street j…
In June 1966, about 400 residents attended a public hearing about a proposed urban renewal plan.
Denton County residents celebrated the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. The Tobin family in Aubrey had extra reason to celebrate because t…
Denton has 21 parks named for neighborhoods, streets or geographical references, such as North Lakes Park and South Lakes Park. About half of …
A cab driver picked up Abner Haynes and Leon King from Southeast Denton on Sept. 1, 1956. Summer heat wasn’t the only reason to sweat that Sat…
Although George McKenna never lived in Denton, he visited the city many times when he was growing up in Denton County between Argyle and Roanoke.
When fall 1903 classes began at the Girls Industrial College, present-day Texas Woman’s University, the Cameron Herald reported: “Denton is a …
