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Denton, Texas, located on the northern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is recognized for its vibrant music scene. With 120 artists calling it home, Denton has fostered a diverse range of talent, including the jazz collective Snarky Puppy and indie artist Sarah Jaffe. The city's musical presence is also noted in songs like "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" by The Mountain Goats.
Denton's rich musical identity is supported by its college town atmosphere, largely influenced by the University of North Texas College of Music, which boasts the nation's first jazz studies program. This environment has contributed to Denton being a hub where various genres, from metal to electronic, thrive.
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This area is home to a diverse range of talented individuals.
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The University of North Texas College of Music in Denton is one of the nation's premier institutions for musical training and education. Prominent alumni include Harry Babasin , Gene Roland , Jimmy Giuffre , Bob Belden, Lou Marini, Conrad Herwig, Jim Snidero, and Norah Jones. In 1947 North Texas State Teachers College (as the current University of North Texas was then named) became the first university in the world to offer a degree in jazz , and over the years the university has solidified its reputation as one of the preeminent institutions for the study of that genre. From the beginning, music was a part of the UNT curriculum. A "Conservatory Music Course" was offered as part of the university's initial "Nine Full Courses" in 1890. The complete course in music, lasting forty-four weeks, required private lessons that had to be paid for, in addition to regular school tuition. These classes ran at a rate of $200 for the complete course, while regular tuition for a forty-week school year was only $48. President Joshua C. Chilton himself taught the first classes in the history of music and the theory of sound. John M. Moore, a Dallas Methodist bishop and teacher of mathematics and engineering courses, taught the classes in voice culture and harmony. Mrs. E. J. McKissack was also a teacher of music and may have served as the director of the music conservatory. Between 1917 and 1919 the school purchased land for the construction of expanded campus facilities. Included in the purchase was the former residence of past president Joel S. Kendall. This two-story frame house, known as Kendall Hall, became the Music Hall and served the department in various capacities until 1940. Music-oriented activities played an important role in the extracurricular life of early North Texas students. As early as 1897, an Orchestra Club and a Mandolin and Guitar Club were organized. By 1920 extracurricular activities, including choral clubs, had become so distracting to many students that a point system was instituted in order to limit participation in them. In 1925, when motion pictures first came to the campus, a student pit orchestra was formed in order to provide music for the films. Faculty member Floyd Graham, who organized the orchestra, saw it as a means of providing income to the students who participated. Extracurricular musical clubs of the day also included the College Choral Club, Girls' Glee Club, Men's Glee Club, College Band, and College Orchestra. The year 1938 was one of the most important in the development of the North Texas music program. Under the auspices of President W. J. McConnell, the music department was greatly expanded. Dr. Wilfred C. Bain was appointed to head the department, and under his leadership, several new initiatives were taken, including an enhanced degree program. The school began offering five degrees in music: bachelor of science in music education, bachelor of music in music education, bachelor of arts in applied music, bachelor of arts with a theory major, and a band master's certificate. At this time, an a cappella choir, which appeared on WFAA radio, was formed, and the college had a marching band, a symphony orchestra, a college band, and a stage band called "Fessor Floyd Graham and His Aces of Collegeland." McConnell and Bain's plans for an improved music school immediately paid off. On December 17, 1939, the National Association of Schools of Music admitted North Texas as an associate member, the first such accreditation for the college in a discipline other than teacher training. In 1940 the association granted North Texas institutional membership, with Bain serving as the association's national vice president. In 1940 the music program's success was rewarded with funds for expanded facilities. The board of regents voted in May to provide $70,000 for the construction of a combination male dormitory and music hall. Revenue from the fees charged the dorm residents was used to repay bonds sold to generat
Beulah A. Harriss (1889-1977) moved to Denton in 1914 from Nebraska to become the first women’s physical education teacher at North Texas State Normal College, now University of North Texas (UNT). With a degree from the University of Nebraska in physical education, Harriss coached the university’s first women’s athletic teams and instructed every sport except football. She organized the physical education department in 1918, which grew under her direction, and the green jackets club, whose purpose was to support all activities of the college. Harriss was a founder in 1923 of the Texas State Physical Education Association (now Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance), serving as president in 1933. She was also a founder of the Texas Woman’s Athletic Association in 1924. Established in 1928 at UNT, Harriss was one of twelve charter members of the RHO Chapter of Delta Psi Kappa, a national fraternity for the promotion of interests in the field of physical education. She was named honorary national president in 1960. The first recognized Girl Scout in Texas, Harriss started the first troop at the College in Denton in 1917. She helped build the scout lodge at hills and hollows in South Denton in 1923. Harriss and 12 other professors from the college were charter members of the Denton County Teachers Federal Credit Union in 1936, now DATCU. After 46 years at UNT as a teacher and women’s athletics activist, Harriss retired in 1960. She was inducted into the North Texas Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987, 10 years after her death. Harriss devoted her life to the youth and citizens of Denton and is remembered each February 27th on Beulah Harriss day. The Girl Scout little house stood near this site.
In the early 1880s, Quakertown emerged as a thriving African American community in the heart of Denton. Quakertown flourished through 1920, its growth due in part to its location near the city square and the opportunities it provided African Americans. The community was bounded by Withers Street on the north, Oakland Avenue on the west, Bell Avenue on the east, and by Cottonwood and Pecan Creeks on the south. Although many residents worked for businesses on the nearby city square, at the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman’s University), and as servants for white households, Quakertown prospered as a self-supporting community. Several churches, a physician’s office, lodges, restaurants, and small businesses joined homes to line the streets of the community. The neighborhood school, the Fred Douglass School, burned in Sep. 1913 and was rebuilt along Wye Street in southeast Denton in 1916, foreshadowing events to come. By 1920, the proximity of Quakertown to the growing College of Industrial Arts and civic-minded interests of Denton’s white residents threatened the future of Quakertown. Many believed that it was in the best interest of the college and the Denton community to transform Quakertown into a city park. In Apr. 1921, with little input from its residents, the city voted 367 to 240 in favor of a bond to purchase Quakertown. More than 60 families lost their homes. The majority of the displaced residents relocated to southeast Denton on 21 acres of land, platted as Solomon Hill, sold to them by rancher Albert L. Miles. Others, including many Quakertown community leaders, chose to leave Denton altogether. By Feb. 1923, Quakertown had disappeared in the midst of the new park’s construction. 											(2010)
Leon Breeden, musician, arranger, educator, and band director, was born on October 3, 1921, in Guthrie Oklahoma. He was the son of Alvin and Marie (Sanders) Breeden. When he was about three years old, his family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, where his parents operated a service station. Breeden recalled that, as a young boy, he sold a Coke to a young couple at the station; he later found out that the pair was Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow . Breeden learned the clarinet at an early age and later took up the saxophone. After graduating from high school, he briefly attended Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth. During World War II , he served as music librarian in the Unites States Army's Sixty-ninth Infantry Division Band at Fort Bliss. He then attended Texas Christian University, where he studied composition and arranging, and earned a B.A. degree in 1945 and a master's in music education in 1948. He was a band director at Texas Christian University from 1944 to 1949. In the early 1950s Breeden lived in New York, where he worked as an arranging assistant to Don Gillis, producer of the NBC Symphony, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Breeden also wrote arrangements for Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, who offered him a permanent position as the orchestra's staff writer and arranger. Breeden, however, declined the offer and returned to Texas to be with his ailing father. Back in Texas, he became a band director at Grand Prairie High School from 1953 to 1959. In 1959 Breeden was recommended, by outgoing director M. E. "Gene" Hall , to head the Jazz Studies program at the school of music at North Texas State College (now University of North Texas). Breeden served as director of the program from 1959 until 1981. During his tenure, he dedicated his work to elevating the profile of the jazz program from an understated study in "dance-band" music (the term " jazz " had carried a disreputable connotation) to a highly-respected and recognized music curriculum that served as a model for other educators and institutions throughout the United States. As head of the program, Breeden personally directed the music department's popular Lab Band. Originally performing every afternoon at two o'clock, he changed the band's rehearsal schedule to one o'clock and subsequently changed its name to the now famous One O'Clock Lab Band. Under his leadership, the band garnered international distinction and numerous awards. In 1967 the One O'Clock Lab Band performed for Lyndon Johnson at the White House along with jazz legends Stan Getz and Duke Ellington. The band performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1970. Breeden initiated the tradition of the band recording an album annually, and the ensemble received its first Grammy nomination in 1976. When the group accompanied Ella Fitzgerald at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1970s, the singer was so impressed that she requested the band to tour with her, but Breeden had to decline because of class schedules. The ensemble toured the United States, Mexico, Europe, and the Soviet Union and also performed for presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. In the process, Breeden and the band raised the overall stature of the music department and the university. Breeden was named Outstanding Professor by the University of North Texas in 1976. The Texas legislature proclaimed May 3, 1981, to be "Leon Breeden Day." Other honors included induction into the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Texas Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 1995. He received an honorary doctorate from TCU in 2001 and from the University of North Texas in 2009. Breeden married Bonna Joyce McKee in 1945, and they had three children. After his wife's death in 1988, he married Bennye Wayne Reid on June 18, 1990. Leon Breeden died at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas on August 11, 2010. He was survived by a daughter; two sons and his second wife had preceded him in death. H
Clara Lou Sheridan, film actress who starred under the name Ann Sheridan, was born in Denton on February 21, 1915, the daughter of George W. and Lula Stewart (Warren) Sheridan. Her father was a car mechanic. She was the youngest of six children and was raised a Southern Baptist. She attended North Texas State Teachers College until an older sister sent her photograph to Paramount Studios' "Search for Beauty" contest in 1932. As a finalist she won a stock contract with Paramount and a part in the movie Search for Beauty (1933). Over the next two years she had bit parts in twenty movies. A name change and a switch to Warner Brothers' studio in 1935 began a stormy, twelve-year working relationship characterized by personal strikes for better scripts and higher pay. Through a publicity stunt, she won a contest against ten other starlets to be named America's "Oomph-Girl," an achievement that gave her some bargaining power. Ann Sheridan herself admitted she did not know what the term meant and described it as "What a fat man says when he leans over to tie his shoelace in a telephone booth." Throughout her thirty-three-year career, she generally played glamorous, often comedic, vamps and "girl-next-door" characters. She starred with leading men as diverse as Zachary Scott , Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant. Her films included Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), Dodge City (1939), King's Row (1941), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), George Washington Slept Here (1942), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949). Her popularity peaked in the 1940s with an extended USO tour through the Far East. After nine mediocre movies in the 1950s and some live summer stock, Sheridan played on the NBC soap opera "Another World" and was shooting a CBS television comedy series, "Pistols 'n Petticoats," at the time of her death from cancer on January 21, 1967. She died in California and was buried in North Hollywood. Sheridan was married at various times to three professional actors: Edward Norris in 1936, George Brent in 1942, and Scott McKay in 1966. Each marriage lasted less than a year. She was a partner in a poodle-raising business from 1948 to 1959. In the 1940s and 1950s she donated much of her time and money to a Hollywood Boys Town for teenage delinquents.
Born in Tennessee July 26, 1806, came to Texas in January, 1836. As a Methodist circuit rider killed in the Village Creek Indian fight May 24, 1841 in what is now Tarrant County. Named for Gen. Edward H. Tarrant who commanded the volunteers. Denton city and county were named for the pioneer lawyer, preacher, soldier of that name.
Most recent: 59-14 over Cedar Park · 2020 5A Division 1 final
Denton, Texas, is a community that rallies around its high school sports, and Ryan High School's football program stands as a point of pride. Competing in Class 5A, the Raiders have demonstrated a consistent pursuit of excellence on the gridiron, reflecting the dedication found throughout the local athletic scene.
The Raiders' commitment to the game has culminated in significant achievements at the state level. The team's hard work and strategic play have brought the ultimate prize back to Denton, marking a memorable period in Ryan High School's athletic history.
In 2020, Ryan High School secured the 5A Division 1 state championship by defeating Cedar Park with a final score of 59-14.
Most recent: 2026 5A Division 1
Denton, Texas, is a community that rallies behind its high school athletes, and the girls' basketball program at Ryan High School has certainly given fans something to cheer about. Competing in Class 5A, the Lady Raiders have established a recent tradition of excellence on the court, bringing state championships home to Denton.
The team secured the UIL Class 5A Division 1 State Championship in 2025, followed by another impressive run to claim the Class 5A Division 1 State Championship in 2026. These back-to-back titles highlight a period of significant achievement for Ryan High School girls' basketball, reflecting dedication within the program and pride across the community.
The 2026 UIL Class 5A Division 1 State Championship marked a significant achievement for Ryan High School.
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Born in Tennessee July 26, 1806, came to Texas in January, 1836. As a Methodist circuit rider killed in the Village Creek Indian fight May 24, 1841 in what is now Tarrant County. Named for Gen. Edward H. Tarrant who…
You're driving past the Denton County Courthouse, a grand structure built between 1896 and 1897. This is the fifth courthouse for the county, with earlier ones located in Alton and Pinckneyville. The third courthouse,…
You're driving through Denton, a city named for John B. Denton, a minister who died defending frontier settlers. The area was first settled in the 1840s, and by 1856, this spot was chosen as the county seat. Imagine…
You're driving through Denton County, carved out of Fannin County way back in 1846. It was organized with Denton as its seat, named for John B. Denton, a preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter who died in 1841. The first…
You're driving through Denton, and right here, way back in 1890, a brand new college kicked off classes on the second floor of a hardware store. Imagine that! Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute opened…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the site of the Lacy Hotel. Charles Christian Lacy, who helped plat this town back in 1855, opened what's believed to be Denton's first hotel on this spot. It stood from…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the site of the First Methodist Church, organized way back in 1857. That's the same year the town of Denton itself was formed! Services started in the log courthouse,…
Beulah A. Harriss (1889-1977) moved to Denton in 1914 from Nebraska to become the first women’s physical education teacher at North Texas State Normal College, now University of North Texas (UNT). With a degree…
In the early 1880s, Quakertown emerged as a thriving African American community in the heart of Denton. Quakertown flourished through 1920, its growth due in part to its location near the city square and the…
You're driving through Denton, and just ahead is the Simmons-Maxwell House, built in 1915. It's a beautiful example of Arts and Crafts Mission Style architecture, designed with an open floor plan, stucco walls, and…
The University of North Texas College of Music in Denton is one of the nation's premier institutions for musical training and education. Prominent alumni include Harry Babasin , Gene Roland , Jimmy Giuffre , Bob Belden,…
Leon Breeden, musician, arranger, educator, and band director, was born on October 3, 1921, in Guthrie Oklahoma. He was the son of Alvin and Marie (Sanders) Breeden. When he was about three years old, his family moved…
Clara Lou Sheridan, film actress who starred under the name Ann Sheridan, was born in Denton on February 21, 1915, the daughter of George W. and Lula Stewart (Warren) Sheridan. Her father was a car mechanic. She was the…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, the hometown of Kearie Lee Berry, a man whose life spanned incredible military service and athletic achievement. Born in 1893, Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas,…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, a place that became home to a pioneering photographer, Carlotta Corpron. Arriving in 1935 to teach at Texas State College for Women, she began experimenting with her camera, not…
You're driving through Denton, and right here in Quakertown Park, a massive celebration of music and art unfolds every spring. It started in 1980 as the 'Spring Fling,' and by 1985, jazz had its own dedicated festival.…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, the birthplace of Edward Walter Eberle, a man who shaped the modern U.S. Navy. Born in 1864, Eberle graduated from the Naval Academy in 1885 and spent nearly fifty years innovating…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, the birthplace of Herschel Evans, a jazz saxophone legend. Born in 1909, Evans learned his craft in the legendary jam sessions of Kansas City, eventually switching to tenor sax at…
You're driving through North Texas, maybe near Denton, where architect O'Neil Ford got his start. He never finished college, but that didn't stop him. He learned by doing, working with Dallas architect David R. Williams…
You're driving through Texas, maybe near Houston, and you're passing by the legacy of Charles Inge Francis. Born in Denton in 1893, Francis wasn't just a lawyer; he was a player in Texas's booming oil and gas industry.…
You're driving through Denton right now, and you're passing the campus of Texas Woman's University. Back in the day, from 1924 to 1954, this place was led by President Louis Herman Hubbard. He was a big deal in bringing…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, home to the stunning Little Chapel in the Woods. This architectural masterpiece wasn't built by professionals alone. Students, faculty, and even members of the National Youth…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, a town that owes much of its African American community's development to Frederick Douglas Moore. Born right here in 1875, Moore was a self-taught scholar, a talented musician who…
You're driving through Denton, home of a flour mill that put Texas on the map! It started in 1886 as a farmers' cooperative, the Farmers' Alliance Milling Company. They hoped to be like successful co-ops in the Midwest.…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, and right here, in what is now the heart of the city, you're passing through the former site of Quakertown. This vibrant African-American community began forming in the mid-1870s,…
You're driving through Denton, home to Texas Woman's University. Did you know this school started because of a huge push from women's groups like the Grange and the WCTU? They wanted a place where young women could get…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, a town that owes a lot to Otis G. Welch. He arrived here in 1852, a lawyer from Maine who'd graduated from Yale. Welch wasn't just any lawyer; he helped lay out this very city and…
You're driving past the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Denton, a resting place with roots stretching back to 1859. That's the year Denton Lodge No. 82 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was chartered, including John S.…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is a house that tells a story of changing tastes in Texas architecture. Built in 1885 by grocer Robert Scripture, the original section was pure Victorian. But look at it…
You're driving through Denton, a town that owes much of its early development to men like Dr. James P. Blount. Born in Mississippi in 1849, Blount moved to Denton as a boy and became a pillar of the community. He wasn't…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, a place that owes its very layout to Joseph Alexander Carroll. Born in Missouri in 1832, Carroll arrived in Denton County in 1853. He wasn't just a lawyer and judge; he was also a…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, home to a vibrant celebration of music! Right here, the Denton Blues Festival transforms Quakertown Park every September into a hub for blues lovers and aspiring musicians. It…
You're driving near Denton, and right here, Denton Field played a crucial role in training pilots for World War II. From 1940 to 1945, this was the North Texas base for the Civilian Aeronautics Authority's…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is where a newspaper shaped the town's identity for over a century. Back in 1882, the Denton Chronicle started, and by 1899, it merged with another paper to become the…
You're driving through Denton, a city that owes its very existence to a desire for a central county seat. Back in 1857, residents wanted a courthouse right in the middle of Denton County. So, three men donated 100…
You're driving through Denton, where William Cunningham Edwards made his mark on local history. In 1899, he took two struggling newspapers, the Chronicle and the County Record, and merged them into the weekly Record and…
You're driving through Denton, a city that became a hub for experimental music thanks to Merrill Ellis. Born in Cleburne in 1916, Ellis came to North Texas State University in 1962 and immediately started pushing…
You're driving through Denton, a town that became the heart of North Texas journalism thanks to Charles W. Geers. After fighting in the Civil War and traveling the South, Geers landed here in 1868. He partnered up and…
You're driving through Denton, the hometown of Fitzhugh Francisco Hill, a lawyer and state representative who served twelve years in the Texas House. Hill was known for his fiery oratory and his tenacity, once described…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, the hometown of George Milton Hopkins, Sr. He wasn't just any local lawyer; Hopkins served Denton County and surrounding areas in the Texas Legislature for years. Back in 1915, he…
You're driving through Denton, a town that was home to Jerome Claiborne Kearby, a man who lived a truly Texas life. He enlisted as a fifteen-year-old "boy soldier" in the Civil War, rising to the rank of major by the…
You're driving through Denton, a city that owes a lot to Alvin Clark Owsley. He arrived here in 1873, starting as a public school teacher. But Owsley wasn't just a teacher; he was a driving force behind education and…
You're driving through Denton, a town that was once home to Alvin Mansfield Owsley. Born here in 1888, Owsley was a lawyer, a decorated WWI veteran, and even served as the national commander of the American Legion. But…
You're driving through Denton, a town that owes a lot to John B. Schmitz. He arrived here in 1878, a young businessman from Illinois. Schmitz didn't just settle in; he dove headfirst into building this community. He…
You're driving through Denton, a town that owes its start to education. Back in 1890, this was a quiet farming community. Joshua Chilton opened Texas Normal College and Teachers' Training Institute, hoping to train…
You're driving through Denton, home to a remarkable archive: The Woman's Collection at Texas Woman's University. Established back in 1932, it's one of the largest and oldest collections dedicated to women's history in…
You're driving through Denton, a city that owes a bit of its educational history to Charles C. Bell. Bell, a farmer and businessman, served two terms in the Texas House of Representatives, representing this very county…
You're driving near Denton, Texas, home to a state school for the intellectually disabled. Back in 1957, the city really wanted this facility. The Denton Chamber of Commerce led a massive campaign, and in just 34 days,…
You're driving through Denton, Texas, home of Fred Minor, a lawyer who reached the pinnacle of Texas politics. After graduating first in his class from the University of Texas law school in 1916, Minor practiced law…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the site of the former Selwyn School. It started back in 1955 as the Denton Civic Boys Choir School. By 1957, it was reorganized and renamed Denton Preparatory School.…
You're driving through North Texas, maybe near Dallas, and right here, Doris Whiteside Baker was making her mark. She grew up in Denton, graduated from North Texas State Teachers College, and by World War II, she was…
You're driving past the Rayzor-Graham House in Denton. Built in 1912 by local builder M.T. Goodwin for business leader J. Fred Rayzor, this home showcases classic American Foursquare architecture with charming bungalow…
You're driving through Denton, and we're passing the site of a community that no longer exists. Quakertown was a vibrant African American neighborhood, founded in the mid-1880s. But in 1922, the city decided to buy up…
You're driving past the marker for the Pioneer Woman, a tribute to the women who settled this land. Imagine them, forging ahead into a pathless wilderness, their courage unswerving. They met every new challenge with…
You're driving past Oakwood Cemetery in Denton, established way back in 1857, not long after this town became the county seat. The land was donated by Hiram Cisco, who also helped lay out the town. The very first burial…
You're driving past the first building of what is now Texas Woman's University in Denton. Created in 1901, this school was the only university in the United States founded expressly for women. Denton won the bid to host…
You're driving past the oldest building on the North Texas campus, built way back in 1912. It started life as a library and gym, but by 1925, it was home to a fascinating museum. History professor Joseph Lyman Kingsbury…
You're driving past the site of Denton's first African Methodist Episcopal Church, Saint James AME. In 1875, Black pioneers from Dallas settled here, calling their new home Freedman Town. They started with prayer…
You're driving past the birthplace of a major Texas university! Back in 1890, Joshua Chilton opened his Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute in downtown Denton. The very next year, the city built this…
You're driving through Denton County, and right here, beneath the waters of Lake Lewisville, lies a site that sparked a national controversy. Back in 1951, during construction for the lake, scientists found something…
You're driving through Denton County, the namesake of a man who lived a wild life. John Bunyan Denton started as an orphan, then a river deckhand, and even an itinerant preacher. But in Texas, he found his calling in…
You're driving through Denton County, not far from where Elizabethtown once stood. Settled by Peters Colony members around 1850, this community served as a vital supply station for cowboys driving cattle north. By 1859,…
You're driving through Texas, and right here, in what is now Denton County, a young man named Ebenezer Hanna was settling with his family back in 1846. But Abe, as he was known, would soon trade the Texas soil for the…
You're driving through North Texas, a land Peter Harmonson helped settle. He came here in 1850, part of Peters Colony, accepting a land grant in what is now Denton County. As one of the first settlers, Harmonson helped…
You're driving through Denton, and right here, you're passing a beautiful piece of Texas history. Back in the 1930s, a committee of sharp women at Texas State College for Women – that’s Texas Woman’s University today –…
You're driving through what used to be Bolivar, a Texas community founded in 1859. Originally called New Prospect by a Methodist minister and doctor, it was renamed Bolivar in 1861. A local farmer, who'd moved from…
You're driving through Denton County, a place that owes its existence to a land grant from the Texas Congress back in 1841. This grant, part of the Peters Colony, was intended to bring settlers to North Texas. The…
You're driving through North Texas, an area that saw action during the Civil War. Right here, Robert H. Donald served as a sergeant in Colonel James G. Bourland's Border Regiment. He saw action along the northern Texas…
You're driving through Denton County, near the Collin County line, and you're passing through the story of Good Hope. It started in 1854 as Rue Settlement, named for Ben Rue who donated land for a church and school. The…
You're driving through northeastern Denton County, and right here is the story of Green Valley. It started as Toll Town, a name earned from its spot at the crossroads of important stage lines. But the teacher at the…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the site of the First Baptist Church. It started way back in 1858, organized by just twelve people in the old log courthouse. For its first decade, the congregation…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the home of the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo! It all kicked off way back on October 15th, 1885, as the Denton County Blooded Stock and Fair. For decades, it…
A 1884 iron bridge outside Denton haunted by the ghost of a murdered goat farmer.
You're driving past the site of Denton's Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. This mission started around 1890, with services held in a local barn! They finally built their first church in 1893, though it was replaced…
Ryan High School (Denton, TX): Most recent: 59-14 over Cedar Park · 2020 5A Division 1 final.
You're driving past Cooper Creek Cemetery, a final resting place that's kept a unique history alive for over a century. Settlers arrived here in the 1860s, and by 1878, this land was formally established as a community…
You're driving past the site of the old Cooper Creek School. While families settled this area even before the Civil War, this community school officially organized in 1876, serving 39 students in a one-room building.…
You're driving through Denton, and right here is the site of a place that changed North Texas farming forever: Agricultural Experiment Station Number 6. Established in 1910, this station wasn't just about growing crops;…
You're driving past Corinth Shiloh Cemetery, a chronicle of area settlers. It started in 1865 when physician Thomas Ball and his wife Nancy settled here after the Civil War. They donated land for a graveyard to the…
You're driving through Corinth, and you're passing the site of a county seat that didn't quite make it. Denton County was formed in 1846, and the first county seat, Pinckneyville, lasted less than two years. In 1848,…
You're driving past Old Alton Cemetery, a graveyard that's watched Denton County grow for over 170 years. The first burial here was Rebecca Daugherty in 1852, on her family's land. Over time, neighbors joined her, and…
You're driving past Argyle, Texas, where this United Methodist Church has been a cornerstone for over a century. It was chartered way back in 1894 with just twenty-seven members. Can you imagine? Their first pastor, a…
You're driving through Van Zandt County, and right here is the site of Corinth, Texas. Originally settled as Hatton, this spot was a crucial stage stop between Marshall and Dallas for over twenty years. But Corinth is…
You're driving through Krum, a town that owes its existence to the railroad. Back in the mid-1880s, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway laid tracks through here and bought land to plat a new townsite. They named it…
You're driving past Krum, a town that started as the Jackson community back in 1876. But Krum really took off in 1886 when the railroad came through. They named the town after Charles K. Krum, a railroad official. Soon,…
You're driving past the Graham-Argyle Cemetery, a quiet reminder of a community that once thrived right here. After the Civil War, settlers built the town of Graham around a school and a Baptist church. The first known…
You're driving past Gribble Springs Baptist Church, established in 1871 by 23 members from the Pond Creek community. The Rev. W.C. West was its first pastor. The congregation met in a schoolhouse before building their…
Annie Webb Blanton started her teaching career at just 17, and by the time she reached North Texas State Normal College, she was a force. For 17 years, she taught there, promoting unity and publishing grammar books used…
You're driving through Argyle, a town that owes its existence to the railroad and a Galveston developer. Back in the 1850s, pioneers began settling this area as part of the Peters Colony. But it wasn't until 1881, when…
You're driving past the Taylor Family Cemetery, a resting place for some of the earliest settlers in the Oak Point area. Samuel and Martha Taylor arrived here from North Carolina in 1859, bringing their sons and…
You're driving through what used to be Toll Town, named for the two roads that crossed here. But a schoolteacher, Henry Clay Wilmoth, thought it needed a better name, so he suggested Green Valley. The post office opened…
You're driving through southwestern Henderson County, and right here is the community of Cross Roads. Its name comes from a brush-arbor camp meeting held in the early 1890s where two important roads met. Before it was…
You're driving through Argyle, Texas, a town with roots stretching back to the mid-1800s. But what gives this place its name? It wasn't settlers who named it, but a railroad surveyor. In 1881, as the Texas and Pacific…
You're driving past the site of a vital Texas gathering spot. Back in 1884, this was designated a religious campground by the Prairie Mound Methodist Church. The key feature? Johns' Well, named for former owner Hardin…
You're driving past the Swisher Cemetery, a final resting place for folks who settled this part of North Texas. It started on land granted to H. H. Swisher for fighting in the Texas War for Independence. The oldest…
You're driving past the Elm Fork Bridge, a relic from the Roaring Twenties. Built in 1922, it was the longest bridge in Denton County at 250 feet, a marvel of iron and steel designed for two-way automobile traffic.…
Development began in 1999 on land known as Rayzor Ranch. Republic Property Group broke ground in March 2000, with Larkspur and Sandlin being the first neighborhoods. The first residents moved in on July 31, 2001. This…
You're driving through Lake Dallas, a community with a name change story as unique as its location. Originally settled in 1852 and known as French Settlement, it later became Garza. The real transformation came in the…
You're driving through Denton County, and right here is Lake Dallas, where William Tip Hall, Jr. served as minister for the Church of Christ for the rest of his life. But Hall wore many hats. He was a math teacher, a…
You're driving through Aubrey, Denton County, near where William Edmunds Bates lived and worked. Born in Virginia in 1812, Bates was licensed as a Methodist minister in Kentucky in 1843. He arrived in Texas in 1851,…
You're driving through Aubrey, and right here is the site of Oak Grove Methodist Church, serving this community since 1880. Imagine worship services and Sunday school held under trees and a brush arbor! The first…
You're driving past Prairie Mound Cemetery, a resting place for many pioneer settlers in the Argyle-Justin area. The earliest marked grave belongs to Edgar Myers, who died in 1878. The original church sanctuary was…
You're driving through Ponder, a town born from the dreams of settlers seeking rich farmland back in the 1850s. Silas Christal and his twelve children were among the first, arriving in 1855. He even built a mill to…
You're cruising past Chinn's Chapel Cemetery, a place that started with a land donation back in 1853. Elisha and Mary Stowe Chinn gave up ten acres for this hilltop resting place. Early settlers held services in a log…
You're driving past a piece of Texas history right here in Copper Canyon. This place started way back in 1846 as a nondenominational church for Peters Colony settlers. They met in a log building, and services were held…
You're driving through Bartonville, a town that owes its existence to a general store and a couple of brothers. Back in 1881, Bentley and James Barton bought land right along an old wagon trail. They set up shop,…
Northdale, Texas, isn't exactly on the way to anywhere. It sits just north of Dallas, where the Blackland Prairie starts to give way to more rolling hills. You might think it’s just another suburb, but there’s a reason…
This area is home to a diverse range of talented individuals.
You're driving through North Texas, not far from Ponder, where Robert Lee Proffer was born. He wasn't just a local educator; Proffer was a driving force behind a major overhaul of the Texas public school system. As a…
You're driving through Ponder, a town that owes its existence to the railroad. Back in 1886, the Santa Fe Railway laid tracks right through this area. The railroad initially called this spot Gerald, but there was…
You're driving past the Harrington, Cassady, and Clark Cemeteries, three historically African American burial grounds here in Denton County. The Harrington Cemetery holds the remains of early residents, with the first…
You're driving past Aubrey, where a church has a story of resilience. It all started back in 1858, when Dr. George T. Key settled here and used his log cabin as both a school and one of the first Methodist churches in…
You're cruising through Sanger, Denton County, and right here is where a town literally sprang up from a railroad water stop. Back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1886</say-as>, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe…
You're driving past the Sanger Presbyterian Church, a building that served this town for over 75 years. Founded in 1896, this structure went up in 1902 on land donated by a Baptist neighbor. It quickly became more than…
Argyle High School (Flower Mound, TX): Most recent: 49-21 over Lindale · 2020 4A Division 1 final.
You're driving past the site of the First Christian Church of Aubrey. Organized in October 1894 by elders R. C. Horn and E. B. Holmes, the congregation's first frame sanctuary was destroyed by a tornado in 1918. Members…
You're driving through Sanger, and right here is the home of William E. Partlow, the city's very first mayor. Partlow was a Virginian who actually surrendered with Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. After the Civil War, he…
You're driving past the site of a home built by a German immigrant who survived the Great Chicago Fire. Jacob Frederick Elsasser was born in Germany in 1834 and came to America with his family, running a cigar factory…
You're driving past the site of the Sanger Stock Farm, established in 1899 by Noah C. Batis. Batis arrived in Texas as a young man and spent his early years working as a cowboy, driving cattle up the famous Chisholm…
You're driving through Aubrey, Texas, a town with a name that almost wasn't! Back in 1881, this spot was called Onega by the railroad workers who built a section house here. But the name wasn't popular, so they drew a…
You're driving through Denton County, not far from Aubrey, Texas. Right here is where James Madison Coffey met his end. A farmer, a teacher, and a legislator, Coffey served in the 39th Texas Legislature in 1925. But his…
You're driving through North Texas, and right near here, in what's now Denton County, a fellow named Stephen Augustus Venters arrived in 1846. He started out working for the Peters Colony land office, but that got messy…
Edward S. Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas — coincidentally sharing his name — is where Marcus Smart won two state titles on a team that went 115-6 over three seasons. He was Big 12 player of the year as a…
You're driving through Denton County, where a vast ranch once stretched across the landscape. Darius Gregg, who fought in the Texas War for Independence, came here in 1827. By the 1850s, he’d amassed nearly 20,000…
You're driving through the area that was once the Bethel community. Settlers arrived here in the 1850s, with pioneer families like the Smiths, Nowlins, Crawfords, and Lusks establishing farms. By the 1870s, the…
You're driving through Sanger, Texas, right on I-35. This town owes its existence to cattle drives and the railroad. Back in 1886, the Santa Fe Railroad laid tracks here, creating a stop for the vast herds being driven…
You're driving past Bolivar Cemetery, a burial ground that's served Sanger since at least 1863. It started as a simple plot laid out by Dr. Hiram Daily in 1852, but grew to include victims of major influenza epidemics…
You're driving through Denton County, and right here is the site of Bolivar, a town named for a hero of South American independence. But it almost wasn't! Back in 1852, settlers debated between calling it 'New Prospect'…
You're driving past the site of Denton's Button Memorial United Methodist Church. The Methodist congregation here began in Little Elm back in 1853. The church moved in the 1950s for Lewisville Lake construction, and in…
You're driving through Ponder, and right here is Eakins Cemetery. It began around 1855 on land owned by Noah and Susan Eakins, who settled here from Kentucky. The first burial was Angelina Rayburn, who died tragically…
You're driving through Denton County, past the site of Plainview Cemetery. This burial ground served early settlers, including the Gideon and William Kimbrough families who arrived from Tennessee around 1878. The…
You're driving past the site of Little Elm, a community born from a massive land grant in 1841. Look for the area about a mile southwest where John and Delilah King settled in 1844. Their son, Kit, was so important he…
You're driving past the McCurley Cemetery, a resting place with a story of relocation. The McCurley family arrived in Denton County from Illinois back in 1852. George Collins McCurley designated this land for burials, a…
You're driving through what used to be Holford Prairie, named for the Holford families who arrived here in 1844, part of the Peters Colony. They settled west of Big Spring Creek, and by 1855, this community built a…
You're driving through Flower Mound, a community named for a distinctive fifty-foot-high hill covered in Indian paintbrush. Settlers were drawn here after Sam Houston settled a tribal dispute in 1844, ending local…
You're driving through Little Elm, a community with roots stretching back to 1844. It all started when Kit King established a settlement right here on Little Elm Creek. In fact, the county's very first post office…
You're driving past the Belew Cemetery, a place with roots stretching back to 1856. That's when Richard and Mary Jane Belew, along with 39 other families, journeyed here from Tennessee. They settled in an area that…
You're driving past the site of Lewisville's prehistoric past. Back in 1950, construction on the Lewisville Dam unearthed ancient artifacts. Archeologists rushed in for a closer look, digging for years before the waters…
You're driving through Fannin County, near the town of Savannah. This area owes a lot to Andrew Jackson Titus, a legislator and planter who settled here in the early 1840s. He wasn't just a farmer; Titus laid out roads…
You're driving through northeastern Lavaca County, heading towards Hackberry. This community started in 1847 when L. E. Neuhaus settled here. He soon added a steam sawmill and gristmill, and a cotton gin. German…
You're driving through Justin, a town named for a railroad engineer, but its story starts much earlier. This land was once home to Native American tribes. Then, in 1841, a pioneer named John B. Denton was killed in…
You're driving through land that was once part of the ambitious Peters Colony, a massive land grant from the Republic of Texas back in 1841. Imagine this: W. S. Peters and his partners promised to bring 600 families…
You're driving through North Texas, not far from Justin, where a French revolutionary named Adolphe Gouhenant tried to start a utopian community. He was a follower of Étienne Cabet, a French communist, and in 1848,…
You're driving through what used to be Holford's Prairie, settled by the Halford brothers in the mid-1800s. Look around Lewisville, a town platted by Basdeal Lewis in 1853. Thomas and Elizabeth Smith bought land here in…
You're driving through Denton County, just northwest of Grapevine Lake, and you're passing through a place that started as a dream from across the ocean. Back in 1848, a group of French colonists arrived, establishing…
You're driving past the Milliken House in Lewisville. Built in 1878 by William Dickerson Milliken, this home was constructed using native oak for its framing. Can you imagine? The siding, however, had to be hauled all…
You're driving past McCombs Cemetery, a quiet resting place that holds stories from the earliest days of this area, even before Denton was the county seat. Back in the 1850s, Nehemiah Wade Boyd died suddenly of…
You're driving through Sanger, Denton County, where the Forester Ranch has been a cornerstone of this area for over a century. William Forester arrived from Tennessee in the early 1850s, setting up his ranch around…
You're cruising past Flower Mound, Denton County. This smooth, dome-shaped hill got its name from the settlers who arrived in the 1840s, part of the Peters Colony. They saw it covered in wildflowers, rising fifty feet…
You're driving past the site of Lane Chapel C.M.E. Church, a testament to resilience in Lewisville. <break time="400ms"/> Founded in 1882 by Anthony Hembry and six former slaves, this congregation was more than just a…
You're driving past Tyson Cemetery, a final resting place for a Denton County family. The earliest known burial here is J.P. Newton, who arrived from Tennessee and died in 1856. Just a few years later, young Charles…
You're driving through Lewisville, Texas, and right here, back on August 30th, <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1969</say-as>, the Dallas International Motor Speedway exploded with sound. This was the Texas…
You're driving through Lewisville, a city that exploded in population thanks to the nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. But before the highways and the suburbs, this area hosted a legendary music festival.…
You're driving through North Texas, near Lewisville, where Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks was born. In 1958, she returned to Texas after extensive training, becoming the *first* woman to practice pediatric surgery in the…
You're driving past Lewisville Lake, a massive body of water with a history as complex as its name. It actually sits on the site of an earlier reservoir, Lake Dallas, built in 1928 primarily for the city of Dallas. But…
You're driving through Denton County, not far from Lewisville, where a successful businessman named Charles Graham Thomas made his mark. After building a lumber business, Thomas turned to politics, serving three terms…
You're driving past the site of the very first Presbyterian church in Denton County. Organized way back in 1854 by Reverend Matthew B. Donald, worship here began in people's homes. They built their first log church…
You're driving past Flower Mound Cemetery, a place that started with a farmer's generous gift. Matthew Doyle arrived in 1854 and immediately set aside ten acres for a church, campground, and this cemetery. He even…
You're driving through North Texas, and right here, in Roanoke, was born Marvin C. Nichols, a man who shaped the very water resources of this state. After earning his engineering degrees, Nichols joined a Fort Worth…
You're driving through Roanoke, a town with a history of moving for progress. It started back in 1847 as Medlin Center, settled by families near Denton and Henrietta Creeks. But those creeks flooded! So, in 1879, they…
You're driving past Decatur, and just ahead, you're crossing a ghost highway of the Old West. This area was a vital feeder branch of the famous Chisholm Trail, the superhighway of cattle drives! Blazed in 1865 by Jesse…
You're driving past Sanger, where John Simpson Chisum once built his home. From 1856 to 1862, this was the base for a man who would become known as the 'cattle king' of Texas. Chisum was born in 1824 and died in 1884,…
Several notable individuals have connections to this community.
You're driving past Medlin Cemetery, a resting place with roots stretching back to the earliest days of Denton County. In 1847, Charles Medlin and his wife Matilda led a wagon train from Missouri, seeking land grants on…
You're driving through what used to be the Rue Settlement, later known as Good Hope. Pioneers arrived in the 1850s, drawn by fertile land and good water. The Rue family likely made the first burials here, though the…
You're driving past Pilot Point, where a congregation organized way back in 1865. Twenty years after the Peters Colony settlers arrived, these folks got together to worship. In 1874, deacons bought this very site, and…
You're driving through Roanoke, and right here is the site of the Roanoke Lodge No. 668, chartered way back in 1888. This Masonic Lodge actually replaced an earlier one in Elizabethtown. For years, members met in rented…
You're driving through The Colony, a modern suburb north of Dallas. But right here, in 1852, this was the site of the Hedgcoxe War. Armed settlers raided and burned the offices of the Texas Emigration and Land Company.…
You're driving past the last vestige of Elizabeth, a town that boomed between 1860 and 1862. It was a real trade center, with businesses, churches, a school, and even a Masonic lodge. Legend says William Perry Harmonson…
You're driving past Skinner Cemetery, a quiet resting place for Pilot Point's earliest settlers. Look for the grave of five-year-old Josiah Taylor, buried here in March of 1858, the first recorded soul in this field.…
You're driving past Pilot Point, a town that owes its name to a tall timber landmark that guided travelers. Settlers were drawn here in the late 1840s by fertile land and abundant water. It quickly became a key stop on…
You're driving through Roanoke, and you might notice an old steel tower piercing the sky. That's the Roanoke Water Tower, built back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1936</say-as>. It wasn't just a water tank;…
You're driving through Roanoke, a town that owes its very existence to the railroad. In 1881, the Texas & Pacific Railroad laid its tracks here, establishing this very community. It was named by a surveyor who hailed…
You're driving past the heart of Pilot Point, Denton County, where a local institution has been serving up news for over a century. Back in 1878, David Moffitt and James Jones launched the 'Pilot Point Post.' This paper…
You're driving past the Roanoke I.O.O.F. Cemetery, a resting place with a few surprising tales. The Independent Order of Oddfellows bought this land in 1897 for burials, but it was always open to everyone. The first…
You're driving through Denton County, near Pilot Point, where William Addison Kendall made his home. Kendall wasn't just a farmer; he was a state legislator who served multiple terms in the Texas House. But his most…
You're driving through Denton County, past Pilot Point. This community got its name from a tall ridge, a landmark for Native Americans and early settlers alike. But life here wasn't always peaceful. In 1860, Pilot Point…
You're driving through Pilot Point, the oldest continuously published newspaper in Denton County started right here in 1878. Three other papers had already failed in this town, but David Moffitt and James Jones launched…
You're driving through North Texas, and right here in Pilot Point, a significant moment in American religious history happened. In 1908, this town became the official birthplace of the Church of the Nazarene. It was…
You're driving through Grayson County, near Pilot Point, where Willis Holford made his mark. Born in Tennessee in 1820, Holford moved his family to Texas before the Civil War. By 1860, he owned thirteen slaves. When war…
You're driving near Westlake, a town with a history as dramatic as any Hollywood script. It all started in 1956 when Dallas attorney Glen Turner founded the Circle T Ranch. Later that year, ranchers and homeowners…
You're driving through what was once the Dove Community, a place shaped by treaties and the frontier. It all kicked off in 1843 with the Bird's Fort Treaty, opening this North Texas land to settlers. By 1846, families…
You're driving past the site of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. German settlers, needing a place to worship, gathered for the first Mass here in 1891. By 1892, they’d built this church, which opened a school the…
You're driving through Denton County, right where a land dispute turned into a full-blown conflict known as the Hedgcoxe War. It all started back in 1841 with the Texas Emigration & Land Company, which was allowed to…
The Colony (The Colony, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Trey Rangel (6 HR).
You're cruising past the site of the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival! Just two weeks after Woodstock, this massive event brought an estimated 150,000 music lovers, hippies, and bikers to Lewisville, a town of only…
You're driving past the Hood Cemetery, established on the farm of Peters colonist Thomas M. Hood. He arrived in Texas around 1845. The earliest marked grave here belongs to Urias Martin, who died in 1855. While unmarked…
You're driving past the Absalom H. Chivers Cemetery, established for a prosperous farmer who arrived from Mississippi around 1852. Chivers, with the help of his five slaves, farmed this land along Dove Creek until his…
You're driving past Grapevine, where in 1844, families from Platte County, Missouri, decided to put down roots. They called themselves the 'Missouri Colony' and were among the very first permanent settlers in all of…
You're driving past the Bridges Cemetery, the oldest in Denton County, established by the W. A. Bridges family. This settlement, a hub for Peters Colony, began way back in 1843. The cemetery itself started in 1855 on…
You're driving through Frisco, and right here is a survivor from the railroad boom. In 1872, the Houston & Texas Central was the first railroad to reach Dallas, kicking off a new era for Texas. Later, in 1903, this very…
You're driving through Southlake, and this marker tells the story of Carroll School. It began way back in 1847 as one of Tarrant County's earliest schools, initially called Dove School. Fast forward to 1919: residents…
You're driving through Slidell, a community named for a Confederate diplomat caught up in a Civil War scandal. The post office opened in 1884, and soon after, Garrett Fletcher donated land for a church and cemetery. He…
You're driving through Valley View, Texas, a town that faced a double dose of disaster in 1924. First, a fire swept through the east side of the town square in the fall. Then, on December 19th, bank robbers set a second…
You're driving through Upshur County, near Gilmer, and you're passing through the community of Valley View. Settled by formerly enslaved African American families around 1880, this wasn't just a place to live; it was a…
You're near David Kuykendall Stadium at Memorial High School in Frisco, the site of a tragedy that drew national attention. On the morning of April 2, 2025, a district track and field championship here was delayed by…
Lone Star (Frisco, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: John Madden (4 HR); Canton Cotton (3 HR).
You're driving near Frisco, Texas, the birthplace of a blues legend: A.D. 'Zuzu' Bollin. Born in 1923, Bollin took his nickname from his favorite ginger snaps. He rose to regional fame in 1951 with his classic Texas…
You're driving past the T.J. Campbell House, a pioneer home built way back in 1869 near Lebanon. Imagine hauling lumber all the way from Jefferson by wagon train just to build this place! It was so important it got…
You're driving through Frisco, Texas, a town that owes its existence to a railroad and a bit of name confusion. It was first called Emerson, after a local banker who promised a bank if the town was named for him. But…
You're driving past Chapel Cemetery in Fort Worth. It began in 1856 with the burial of Eliny Raibourn, with land later donated by her brother-in-law, John Fanning. The site was known as Fanning burying grounds until…
You're driving through Grapevine, a town with a name that might surprise you. Back in 1854, this place was known as Dunnville. That's when James Tracy Morehead, who’d arrived in Texas just two years prior, became the…
You're driving past Grapevine Cemetery, a resting place for many of this area's pioneers. Brothers Samuel and Allen Coble settled here in the 1850s. Then, in 1878, they donated land for this public cemetery. The oldest…
You're driving through Prosper, Texas, a town born from a railroad and a hopeful name. It all started in 1902 when the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway laid tracks through this agricultural region. The…
You're driving through Grapevine, near the old Morgan Hood Survey. Look for a small cemetery, abandoned for over a century. Its single visible grave is marked with stones, a common pioneer method from the 1850s to…
You're driving past the site of the Dorris-Brock House, a testament to Grapevine's early settlement and growth. <break time="400ms"/> Dr. William E. Dorris, a Civil War veteran whose first wife died during the conflict,…
Quinn Ewers put up video-game numbers for the Southlake Carroll Dragons. As a sophomore in 2019 he threw for about four thousand yards and forty-five touchdowns against just three interceptions and was named his…
Frisco (Frisco, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Dominic Floyd (4 HR).
You're driving through Valley View, a town that started as a dream on a tall grass prairie. In 1870, Captain L.W. Lee and his wife Mary Ann left Missouri for this spot, and soon friends joined them. By 1872, they…
As you drive through pioneer cemeteries around Texas, you might spot unusual stone structures. These are pioneer burial cairns, built by early settlers to memorialize their dead. These surface structures, made of native…
You're driving past White's Chapel Cemetery, a quiet resting place that began with a tragedy on the Texas frontier. Local legend says it started around 1851, when a child traveling in a wagon train died and was buried…
You're driving through Keller, and right here is the site of Mount Gilead Baptist Church. This congregation officially formed in 1850, making it the very first church established after Tarrant County itself was created…
You're driving past the site of White's Chapel United Methodist Church, founded by settlers who arrived by wagon train all the way from Georgia in 1871. They first met in the home of S. B. Austin, who then donated land…
You're driving past Mount Gilead Cemetery, a final resting place for some of the earliest settlers in this part of Tarrant County. These families arrived all the way from Missouri in 1847, part of the Peters Colony.…
You're driving past the site of Rock Hill, a town that literally moved itself! Established in 1854, Rock Hill was a thriving community with schools, churches, and businesses. But in 1902, the railroad bypassed it,…
You're driving through what used to be wild Texas wilderness, right here near Slidell. Back in the 1850s, A. H. Fortenberry, known as Sevier, moved his family from Arkansas to this untamed land. He farmed, raised stock,…
You're driving through Coppell, Texas, a town born from a railroad stop. Back in 1843, President Sam Houston himself camped right here on Grapevine Creek, trying to get local Indian tribes to help defend the Republic of…
You're driving through Prosper, a town born from a railroad’s decision. It actually grew from two earlier settlements, Rock Hill and Richland. But when the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railroad bypassed them, a…
You're driving past Gainesville, and right here is the site of Cooke County's very first school, organized way back in 1847! It started in a pioneer woman's home, then moved to a log cabin. By 1884, it joined the public…
You're driving through Southlake, passing the site of the Thomas Easter Cemetery. Thomas Easter, a Virginia native, settled here by 1848, patenting over 600 acres. After his death in 1862, a portion of his land became…
You're driving through Prosper. The First Presbyterian Church began as the McAdew Congregation in 1878 with 26 members. They met in a schoolhouse for 14 years before building their first church in 1892. The congregation…
You're driving past the Torian Log Cabin, a survivor from the earliest days of settlement in Tarrant County. Built by hand from rough-hewn logs, this cabin stood on the edge of the Cross Timbers, near the pioneer…
You're driving through Grapevine, a town named for the wild mustang grapes that once grew here in abundance. Ambrose and Susannah Foster were among the first settlers back in 1845, arriving from Missouri. Their land…
You're driving through Grapevine, and right here, you're passing the site of the First Baptist Church. Baptists were meeting in homes as early as 1846, long before this town was officially on the map. Worship services…
You're driving past the site of the Grapevine Sun, a newspaper that served this town for nearly a century! It all started in 1895 with Benjamin Wall, who was just nineteen when he launched the weekly paper. It changed…
You're driving through Southlake, and just ahead is the site of Jellico, a town that boomed and busted. Robert Emmett Wilson and his family settled here in the 1880s, opening a general store. By 1898, they had a post…
You're driving past the old Tarrant County State Bank building in Grapevine. Originally built in 1897 as retail space, it got a new life in 1921 when the Tarrant County State Bank moved in. Imagine the deals made and…
You're driving past Prosper, where Lee Lodge No. 435 of the Freemasons has been a part of the community. Originally chartered in 1875 near Rhea's Mill, the lodge moved to Prosper in 1903. They built a lodge hall in 1904…
You're driving past Prosper, Texas, where the United Methodist Church has a history dating back to 1899. Originally Bethel Methodist Church, it was renamed Smith's Chapel and later Prosper Methodist Episcopal Church…
You're driving past the site of a business that's been serving Grapevine for over a century. Back in 1880, John E. Foust arrived and opened a general store that happened to stock coffins. Over time, the coffin business…
You're driving past Grapevine Springs Park, a spot that's been drawing people for over two thousand years. Imagine President Sam Houston himself camping right here back in eighteen forty-three, during treaty talks with…
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is where Richard Montgomery Gano made his mark. He wasn't just a doctor and a minister; Gano was a Confederate general during the Civil War. He fought alongside John Hunt…
You're driving through Grapevine, Texas, a town that got its name from the prairie it sits on. Back in 1844, settlers from Missouri called this place the 'Missouri Colony.' They chose this spot on the Grapevine Prairie,…
You're driving through Tarrant County, the heart of Texas's frontier defense during the Civil War. Right here, William Quayle, a man born on the Isle of Man, found himself leading the charge. Though he opposed…
You're driving through North Texas, and right here near Grapevine, you might have passed a tower that was once the tallest man-made structure in the Southwest. This was the shared transmitter for two rival radio…
You're driving past what was once the Nash Farm, established way back in 1859. This was one of the last 19th-century farms in North Texas, a real relic from a time when this whole area was dotted with homesteads. Thomas…
You're driving through Tarrant County, near Grapevine, where Archibald Franklin Leonard settled in 1845. He wasn't just a farmer; he helped lay out this very town and served as postmaster and justice of the peace. When…
You're driving through Grapevine, Texas, a town that owes much of its early 20th-century character to Dr. Charles Edwin Walker. After graduating medical school in 1898, he returned here, setting up a unique "horse and…
You're driving through Frisco, and right here is the site of a church that's been serving this community since the frontier days. It all started back in 1848, when settlers gathered in a log home to form Bethel…
You're driving near Grapevine Lake, a massive reservoir created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Construction on the dam, located on Denton Creek, began back in January of <say-as interpret-as="date"…
You're driving past Bourland Cemetery, a final resting place that started as a family plot. Aurelius Delphus Bourland, a Civil War veteran and Primitive Baptist preacher, bought this land in 1873. He first used this…
You're driving through Coppell, where the Parrish family has put down roots. James and Eliza Parrish settled here in 1853, but James died later that same year. Eliza then set aside this land for a family cemetery. More…
You're driving past Keller, where Methodists have been gathering for worship since the late 1800s. In 1897, Pastor W. K. Simpson officially organized the Keller Methodist Church. For years, they shared spaces with other…
You're driving past the Thurmond-Fairview Cemetery. This burial ground began in 1883 when J. F. Thurmond asked neighbors to select a spot for a graveyard after his infant daughter died. He donated land for the church,…
You're passing Furneaux Cemetery, a final resting place for some of the earliest English immigrants to North Texas. William Furneaux arrived from England in 1857, and his wife's family came even earlier as part of the…
You're driving through Coppell, not far from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Back in the 1840s, James Parrish and his wife Eliza Jane settled here. Before James died in 1853, they set aside a piece of their farm for…