Landmarks & Legacies: Denton County's Poor Farm treated tenants kindly

• Sep 5, 2019

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

Yesteryear: September 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle Commentary
• Aug 31, 2019

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Legends & Legacies: Early Denton doctor received early medical training during Civil War

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Aug 19, 2019

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

Yesteryear: August 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Aug 3, 2019

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Landmarks & Legacies: Denton's celebration of returning World War I soldiers remembered

• Mark Finley
• Aug 2, 2019

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

Landmarks & Legacies: Walker Jagoe was one of America’s first fighter pilots

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jul 27, 2019

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

Legends & Legacies: Edith Clark guided Normal school students through two world wars

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jul 14, 2019

A party at Edith Clark’s Normal Street house was decorated with a magical combination of flowers, ferns and Japanese lanterns. Refreshments in… Read more

Yesteryear: July 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jul 6, 2019

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Legends & Legacies: Mexican-American War veteran was a firsthand witness to history

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jun 30, 2019

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

Landmarks and Legacies: Denton’s first war veteran lived a rough life

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jun 10, 2019

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

Yesteryear: June 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jun 1, 2019

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Landmarks and Legacies: Vets Village housed wave of World War II vets

• By Annetta Ramsay
• May 13, 2019

When Texan Frank Gioviale lost a uniform button during World War II, he found his wife. Read more

Yesteryear: May 2019

• By DJ Taylor Commentary
• May 11, 2019

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Annetta Ramsay: Law and ethics are not the same

• By Annetta Ramsay
• Apr 26, 2019

Denton’s ethical code is a political football. An April 17 ethics complaint hearing involving City Council members Deb Armintor and Paul Meltz… Read more

Yesteryear: April 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Apr 6, 2019

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Landmarks and Legacies: UNT and eminent domain

• By Annetta Ramsay
• Mar 20, 2019

The University of North Texas has been in the news lately over the possible use of eminent domain, but UNT’s beginning on a small, landlocked … Read more

Yesteryear: March 2019

• By DJ Taylor
• Mar 16, 2019

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Landmarks and Legacies: Denton’s 'House of Seven Gables' now exists only in paint, memory

• By Annetta Ramsay
• Feb 22, 2019

One of Denton’s most beautiful houses, pictured in a Dorothy Bertine watercolor, is just a memory. Read more

Yesteryear: February 2019

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Feb 2, 2019

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Landmarks and Legacies: Denton County's fourth jail victim of urban renewal

• By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jan 28, 2019

Denton’s Courthouse on the Square is an impromptu living room for picnics, yoga, rallies and concerts. People enjoying the courthouse lawn mig… Read more

Yesteryear: January 2019

• Compiled by DJ Taylor For the DRC
• Jan 5, 2019

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Yesteryear: December 2018

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Dec 1, 2018

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Lest we forget: 100 years since the end of the War to End All Wars

• By Marshall Reid For the Denton Record-Chronicle marshall.reid@dentonrc.com
• Nov 11, 2018

Today is an important day for veterans, the country and the world over. It marks Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary of the armistice of Wo… Read more

Yesteryear: November 2018

• DJ Taylor Commentary
• Nov 3, 2018

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Yesteryear: October 2018

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Oct 5, 2018

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Yesteryear: September 2018

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Sep 1, 2018

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Yesteryear: August 2018

• By DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Aug 18, 2018

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Yesteryear: July 2018

• DJ Taylor For the Denton Record-Chronicle
• Jul 6, 2018

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Yesteryear: June 2018

• Compiled by DJ Taylor Commentary
• Jun 9, 2018

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Yesteryear: May 2018

• DJ Taylor
• May 12, 2018

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Yesteryear 100 Years Ago From April 1918

• By DJ Taylor
• Apr 8, 2018

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Yesteryear: Strange lights seen were aurora borealis

• By DJ Taylor
• Mar 18, 2018

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Yesteryear: Denton declares pool halls a nuisance

• By DJ Taylor
• Feb 11, 2018

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Yesteryear: Another porkless and wheatless day added

• By DJ Taylor
• Jan 7, 2018

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Yesteryear: May 2017

• DJ Taylor
• May 12, 2017

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Yesteryear

• dentonrc Administrator
• Sep 11, 2016

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