Street names are a snapshot of what is important when they are named. Denton’s Dallas Drive, Fort Worth Drive, McKinney Street and Bolivar Str… Read more

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a two-day package looking at the origins of the modern-day University of North Texas and Texas… Read more

Alvin Mansfield Owsley was born in Denton in 1888. He attended the Normal College, now the University of North Texas, for one session, prior t… Read more

The 1921 “Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America,” Margaret Gorman, didn’t receive her crown until 1922, when the Atlantic City pageant became… Read more

Denton residents poured out of homes when the fire siren signaled Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh’s arrival on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1927. Read more

A family compound is a cluster of buildings with a common purpose, usually within an enclosure, like the well-known Kennedy family compound in… Read more

In a 1927 Campus Chat article, North Texas State Teacher’s College professor Joe “Dad” Pender said, “There is no task in this world more sacre… Read more

Grover Campbell built the house at 2046 Scripture St. in 1941. Read more

World War I veterans gathered in March 1932 for a peaceful protest in the swampy Anacostia Flats south of the Washington D.C. 11th Street Brid… Read more

Correction: The Benjamin Lyon Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution placed American flags on World War I and Wo… Read more

Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer for many Americans, but the last Monday of May honors fallen veterans. The origin of Memorial D… Read more

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect year for when the second wave of Spanish flu hit Denver.  Read more

Not all cemetery markers are graves; empty monuments called cenotaphs help families grieve. An 1862 IOOF cenotaph memorializes Richard Christa… Read more

One of the earliest recorded Easter celebrations in Texas was in what is now Fredericksburg, as German immigrants sheltered in place while lea… Read more

Soldiers fighting the last months of World War I faced a new enemy when Spanish influenza rocketed through trenches, claiming more lives than … Read more

Lifelong Denton resident Hal Jackson, a highly decorated World War II veteran, served three tours of duty in the South Pacific, starting with … Read more

Outlaw Sam Bass spent much of his brief adulthood in Denton, but his notoriety reached across the United States and to England. Read more

Outlaw Sam Bass spent much of his brief adulthood in Denton. While he died, Texas Rangers asked him to name his gang members. He said, “It’s a… Read more

Snow covered Denton’s roofs and trees on Jan. 1, 1875, when Janie Goodall went into labor. She was alone because the baby’s Native American fa… Read more

Veterans living in Vets Village at North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of North Texas, were grateful to return to families … Read more

At 4 a.m. on April 29, 1944, American bombardier Lt. Rapenport briefed 18 aircrews for a bombing mission over Germany. Crews took off at 7:25 … Read more

Ernest Criddle was one of the first faculty members of the Normal College, now the University of North Texas. He was born in 1874 in Waxahachi… Read more

One of Denton’s most iconic historic homes was extensively remodeled 25 years after it was built. The Scripture House, at 819 W. Oak St., was … Read more

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order established the Works Progress Administration on May 6, 1935. Two years earlier the Civilian… Read more

In May 1935, Capt. J.M. Bridwell took charge of materials to prepare Denton’s Civilian Conservation Corps camp for the Aug. 15 arrival of 200 … Read more

In June 1919, a handful of Company M soldiers returned from World War I and reunited with Ernest Boggs, who returned earlier with injuries, on… Read more

One of Denton’s first World War I soldiers, Arthur McNitzky, was born in Denton to German immigrants. Read more

On Aug. 6, 1925, Deputy Sheriff Robert Parsons lay dead on East Hickory Street, near present-day Mellow Mushroom, shot 11 times by Story gang … Read more

Denton faced a Wild West-era style crime spree in 1925. Prohibition began in 1920, partly because barley was needed for World War I soldiers, … Read more

America’s poor were punished for their poverty in poorhouses, a system rooted in 17th century English law. Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s famou… Read more

Cuvier Lipscomb got his early medical training the hard way, providing surgical assistance for wounded Civil War soldiers. The sandy, red-hair… Read more

Denton County residents partied all day on Aug. 2, 1919, as an estimated 10,000 people celebrated the return of 828 veterans from World War I. Read more

Walker Jagoe’s passion for aviation began in 1910 when he was 14 years old. He and fellow Denton High School student Robert Storrie built a bi… Read more

About 600 veterans are buried in Denton’s IOOF and Oakwood cemeteries; Abraham Byron Harris is one of them. Read more

Andrew Jackson Hitchcock’s grave in the northwest corner of Denton’s I.O.O.F. Cemetery is marked by a white obelisk proclaiming, “Was with Col… Read more

Freeland Andre DeGorce Townsley concentrated on getting through German machine gunfire when he stormed the Normandy beach on the coast of Fran… Read more