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18359 Bartonville 1941 E. Jeter Road, Bartonville, Texas 76226 located at Bartonville Town Hall The town of Bartonville grew out of early post-Texas Revolution settlements in Denton County. Denton Creek, which split into the Loving Branch and ... 17216 Belew Cemetery 3 miles north of Aubrey on Highway 377 to west on Belew Road tenth of a mile Around 1856, Richard (Dick) Aaron Belew (1820-1900) and Mary Jane Belew (1822-1902), their five children and 39 other families came together by wagon ... 389 Bethel Community Kirkpatrick Ln., N side between Morriss Road and Frost Lane Settlement of this area began in the 1850s. Among the pioneer families were those of Samuel K. Smith, Anderson Nowlin, William Crawford, and Sam ... 18130 Beulah A. Harriss Quakertown Park, near Denton Civic Center and City Hall 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 ... 11843 Bolivar Cemetery FM 455, 3.7 mi. W of IH-35 The town of Bolivar was laid out by Dr. Hiram Daily in 1852 with a burial plot on high ground nearby. Though the site had probably been used as a ... 6957 Bolivar, Townsite of SE corner of the Intersection of FM 2450 and 455 Named indirectly for Simon Bolivar, South American statesman, general and patriot. It might have been called "New Prospect," but for a mug of rum. ... 508 Bridges Cemetery take South Colony Blvd., until it ends, Cemetery is located in middle of field, The Colony Bridges settlement, named for the W. A. Bridges family and reportedly the oldest in Denton county, began in 1843 and was a center of activity of ... 13569 Button Memorial United Methodist Church in the community of Little Elm, east of Denton; intersection of FM 720 and Clark Street The Rev. William E. Bates, a native of Virginia, established the Methodist congregation at Little Elm in 1853. Members shared a meetinghouse with ...

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15950 Campus Theatre northeast corner of Hickory and Cedar Streets 23886 Champion - Macedonia Cemetery 1450 S. Stemmons Frwy. In 1881, African American farmer James “Jim” Champion (d. 1924) and his wife, Antonette (Cassady), purchased 80 acres on the Elm Fork of the Trinity ... 833 Chinn's Chapel Cemetery I-35 east, exit FM 407/Justin Road, west about 3 miles on FM 407, then about 1 mile north on Chinn Chapel Road, Copper Canyon Elisha and Mary Stowe Chinn purchased this site in 1853 and donated 10 acres atop the hill north of Lockhart Spring. As deaths occurred among the ... 834 Chinn's Chapel Methodist Church I-35 east, exit FM 407/Justin Road west about 3 miles, on FM 401/Justin Road, then about 1 mile north on Chinn Chapel Road, Copper Canyon This church began as a nondenominational congregation organized by pioneer settlers of the Peters Colony in 1846. Itinerant preachers were invited ... 18697 Chisholm Trail in Denton County 7.9 miles west of IH-35 at Sanger on FM 455 The Chisholm Trail was a significant route for cattle drives in the late 1800s that traveled the entire length of Denton County and played a major ... 18102 Christal House 722 West Oak Born to pioneers in 1859, James "Jim" Russell Christal was raised by his mother after age three when his father mysteriously died on a hunting trip. ... 18834 City of Krum Krum Public Library Located in west-central Denton County, the city of Krum began as a pioneer settlement, known as the Jackson community, near present-day Krum Jackson ... 890 City of Pilot Point Town Square, Pilot Point (Main and Washington Streets) Attracted by fertile land and abundant water and game, pioneers began to settle at this site near the edge of the Cross Timbers region in the late ... 6967 Community of Little Elm Beard Park The community of Little Elm is located on land that was part of the original Peters Colony empresario grant awarded by the Republic of Texas in 1841. ... 17246 Cooper Creek Baptist Church From Loop 288 go east on US 380 0.4 miles to the intersection of US 380 and Cooper Creek Road; North on Cooper Creek Road 0.5 Miles to the intersection of Cooper Creek Road and Fish Trap Road; Straight on Fish Trap Road to 4582 Fishtrap Road AS EARLY AS 1872 BAPTISTS IN THE COOPER CREEK COMMUNITY MET FOR CHURCH IN A BUILDING LOCATED CLOSE TO THE CURRENT STRUCTURE. IN 1916, L.F. “TOM” ... 17150 Cooper Creek Cemetery From Loop 288 go East on US 380 0.4 Miles to the intersection of US 380 and Cooper Creek Road; North on Cooper Creek Road 0.5 Miles to the intersection of Cooper Creek Road and Fish Trap Road; Straight on Fish Trap Road This burial ground is one of the last remaining remnants of a small rural community that dates back to before the Civil War. Settlers, including ... 17135 Cooper Creek School From Loop 288 go east on US 380 0.4 miles to the intersection of US 380 and Cooper Creek Road; North on Cooper Creek Road 0.5 Miles to the intersection of Cooper Creek Road and Fish Trap Road; Straight on Fish Trap Road (Cooper Creek Road turns left) 0.1 Mile to a point on the street perpendicular to the school. Although the Cooper Creek Community was formally established in 1872, families began to settle the area before the Civil War. A land deed from that ... 13027 Corinth Shiloh Cemetery 6 mi. S of Denton; 1 mi. E of IH-35 at intersection of Shady Shores Rd and Swisher Rd, in Corinth Physician and lay preacher Thomas A. Ball and his wife, Nancy (Yeats), came to Denton County from Missouri soon after the Civil War ended in 1865. ... 13866 County Line Baptist Church 512 E Walcott This church, originally called the Colored Missionary Baptist Church, has served as a spiritual leader for African Americans in the area since 1863. ...

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11844 First Baptist Church of Denton 1100 Malone Twelve men and women met in 1858 in the log cabin Denton County Courthouse to organize the Union Baptist Church. In its first decade, the church ... 1687 First Baptist Church, Hebron corner of FM 544 and Hebron Parkway in Hebron, 10 miles East of Lewisville Organized in 1883 at the Willow Springs School, this congregation was known as Big Valley Baptist Church during the early years of its existence. ... 14877 First Christian Church of Aubrey 410 N. Main Early Disciples of Christ in this area met as part of a union church in the Spring Hill community, where several denominations held services under ... 11845 First Christian Church of Denton 1203 N. Fulton This congregation, established in 1868 and led by Elder Terrell Jasper, initially met in the local Masonic Hall until a frame church building was ... 1752 First Methodist Church of Denton 201 South Locust Street, Denton The Rev. William E. Bates organized the First Methodist Church of Denton in 1857, the same year the town of Denton was formed. Services were conducted ... 6964 First University Building Hickory Hall On this site in 1891, the city of Denton erected a building to be leased to President Joshua C. Chilton, for the use of the privately owned Texas ... 1926 Flower Mound on Flower Mound Road (FM 3040) just east of intersection with Long Prairie Road (FM 2499), Flower Mound Settlers of the Peters Colony named this smooth, dome-shaped hill for the abundant wild flowers that grow on it. Rising fifty feet above the surrounding ... 13125 Flower Mound Cemetery Flower Mound, 1501 Flower Mound Rd (FM 3040) Matthew and Isabella Doyle (Douglass) Donald arrived in Denton County, Texas in 1854. That year, Matthew, a successful farmer, set aside 10 acres ... 1927 Flower Mound Presbyterian Church 1501 Flower Mound Road (FM 3040) next to Flower Mound Cemetery, Flower Mound First Presbyterian Church in county. Organized 1854 by the Rev. Matthew B. Donald, who is buried in church cemetery. Worship was in homes before ... 14287 Ford, O'Neil Emily Fowler Library (December 3, 1905 – July 20, 1982) In the mid-20th century, a North Texas native became a leading architect of the American Southwest. O’Neil Ford ... 1944 Forester Ranch 7.5 miles west of Sanger on FM 455, at entrance to ranch William S. Forester brought his family to Denton County from Tennessee in the early 1850s, and established a ranch about 1852. He was assisted in ... 22389 Frederick Douglas Moore 815 Cross Timbers Street 2085 Furneaux Cemetery on Cemetery Hill Road, 1/2 block south from its intersection with Rosemead Parkway, Carrollton William Furneaux, a native of England, came to Texas in 1857 and married Fanny Jackson (d. 1917), whose family had come to Texas in 1848 as part ...

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15774 Galilee Missionary Baptist Church 300 East Willow Street 23859 Gibson-Grant Log House 3615 Grant Court This 1861 log house, measuring 16 feet on each side, was built as a family home by Tennessee natives William (1801-1865) and Rebecca (Wallis) Gibson ... 2223 Good Hope Cemetery 15 miles East of Denton, north of US 380 east a intersection of Good Hope and Prosper Roads between FM 1385 and Collin County Line Attracted to the area by its fertile soil, good water supply, and abundant building materials, pioneers from Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, ... 2241 Graham-Argyle Cemetery on County Club Road about 1/2 mile east of US 377, on North side of Road, 1/2 mile North of Argyle This burial ground served the farming community of Graham which grew up here after the Civil War. First known interment was that of an infant, George ... 12534 Green Valley Schools 4 miles west of Aubrey on FM 428, then 0.25 mile north on FM 2153 Fertile farmland and plentiful timber attracted settlers to this part of Denton County about 1870. The community that developed originally was called ... 2279 Gregg Ranch from IH-35 in Denton, go west on US 380 about 8.6 miles, turn North on Ripy Road (at Muslim Cemetery) proceed about 1.7 miles to entrance of Ranch on west side of road Darius Gregg (1804-70), who came to Texas from Tennessee in 1827, and fought in the Texas War for Independence, accumulated about 20,000 acres in ... 13519 Gribble Springs Baptist Church Sanger, 6933 FM 2164 Twenty-three members of the congregation from the Pond Creek community established Gribble Springs Baptist Church in 1871. The Rev. W.C. West served ...

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13907 Martin-Russell House on S. side of Oak between Mounts Ave. and Fulton St. This prominent residence was built in 1925-27 at a cost of $30,000 for Dr. M.L. Martin (1869-1941) and his wife, Ailsey (Forester) Martin (1890-1968). ... 11846 McCombs Cemetery Wager Rd, east side south of Saint Gallen Ln The history of this small community cemetery dates to the 1850s, before Denton was selected as county seat. The site contains graves of early pioneers ... 3288 McCurley Cemetery northeast corner of Grandy's Lane and McGee Lane, Lewisville The McCurley family of Illinois settled in Denton County in 1852. George Collins McCurley set aside land for a burial ground, church, and school. ... 3318 Medlin Cemetery 1.5 miles east of Roanoke on SH 114, go north on Trophy Club Drive about 7/10 of a mile to cemetery (on west side of road) In 1847 Charles Medlin (1807-1864) and his wife Matilda (Allen) migrated from Missouri with their household and 20 other families to take up land ... 3385 Milliken House on N. side of Waters St. between W. Charles St. and Herod St. Built by William Dickerson Milliken, born in Paducah, Ky., Nov. 1, 1848; married Margaret Crockett Young. Children: W. D., Jr.; Samuel Ramsey, M.D.; ... 18508 Mounts House northwest corner of Mounts Ave. and Gregg St. Robert Noble Mounts (1863-1922) and Nannie Lee (Christal) Mounts (1870-1942) built this home in 1898. The Mounts family came to Denton County in ... 18511 Mounts-Wright House northwest corner of Mounts Ave. & Haynes Street The Mounts family first arrived in Denton County in the 1850s from Virginia. W.H. Mounts (1833-1889) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth (Mattie) Mounts ...

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3998 Peters Colony 1197 West Main Street (FM 1171) in front of Municipal Building and City Hall, Lewisville (within area encompassed by) A reservation of land made under an Empresario contract by the Republic of Texas, 1841. Its purpose was to introduce ... 4021 Pilot Point Church of Christ 426 South Jefferson (corner of Jefferson and White Streets) Pilot Point This congregation organized about 1865, twenty years after members of the Peters Colony began settling here. In 1874 the church deacons purchased ... 4022 Pilot Point Post-Signal 111 East Main, Pilot Point First published as the "Pilot Point Post," this newspaper was established in 1878 by David J. Moffitt (1848-1917) and James T. Jones (1845-1915). ... 4037 Pioneer Woman Campus of Texas Woman's University (corner of Oakland Drive and Pioneer Circle) Marking a trail in a pathless wilderness, pressing forward with unswerving courage, she met each untried situation with a resourcefulness equal to ... 17602 Plainview Cemetery From the intersection of FM 156 and FM 1173 in Krum, go 5.2 miles west on FM 1173. Cemetery is on south side of FM 1173 behind Plainview Baptist Church. Located in western Denton County, Plainview Cemetery served as a burial ground for early settlers in the area. The Plainview community began around ... 16798 Ponder Turn east off FM 156 onto 100 West Bailey Street. Marker will be placed in front (east) of flag pole at entrance of West Bailey Street at site of town's original water well, now enclosed in concrete. Settlers began to arrive in western Denton County in the 1850s in search of rich agricultural land. Silas Christal (1810-1883), his wife, Mary Elizabeth ... 4109 Prairie Mound Cemetery 1/2 mile north of FM 407, 4 miles southwest of Argyle on Prairie Mound Cemetery Road This burial ground was in use by 1882 when adjoining property was deeded to the Prairie Mound Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The earliest marked ...

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4207 Rayzor-Graham House N. side of W. Hickory St., between W. Welch St. and Denton St. Business and civic leader J. Fred Rayzor (1890-1965) had this home constructed in 1912 by local builder M. T. Goodwin. It was purchased in 1941 by ... 15260 Ritter Cemetery Lewisville Established ca. 1860. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001 14621 Roanoke 104 S. Oak Street In 1881, the Texas & Pacific Railroad came through here and established this community, named by a railroad surveyor from Roanoke, Virginia. Settlers ... 4285 Roanoke I.O.O.F. Cemetery from Roanoke, follow Main Street southeast out of town (pass SH 170) about 1.5 miles to cemetery on north side of road Although few records exist of the Roanoke I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Oddfellows) Lodge No. 421, it is known that lodge members purchased land ... 4286 Roanoke Lodge No. 668, A.F. & A.M. corner of Oak and Austin Streets, Roanoke Chartered in 1888, Roanoke Lodge No. 668 replaced the W. C. Young Masonic Lodge, which had been meeting in nearby Elizabethtown. Members of the Roanoke ... 16351 Roanoke Water Tower 100 Block of South Oak Street, in Heritage Place Built during the Great Depression, the Roanoke Water Tower was the town's primary water source. Hugh H. Jenkins, Roanoke's first Mayor, advocated ... 23316 Roark-Griffith Pottery Site Historic Lane, N side, 0.5 mi. W of Naylor Road Stoneware production was a vital activity of the 19th century. A typical layout included clay pits, firing kilns and workshops. James M. Roark ...

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4442 Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church 1107 East Oak Street (corner of Oak and Crawford Streets), Denton In 1875 a group of black pioneers from the White Rock Community in Dallas moved to Denton County and named their settlement Freedman Town. Worship ... 16443 Sanger and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway At 100 Bolivar St. just west of the Santa Fe Railroad Tracks Sanger originated in 1886 at mile post 392.16 as a water stop along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Route leading north from Fort Worth to ... 4568 Sanger Presbyterian Church NW corner 7th and Elm streets Founded 1896, in 1902 built this structure on land given by Jack R. Sullivan, a Baptist. With town's best auditorium, this became site of school ... 4617 Scripture-Deavenport House on S. side of W. Oak between Mounts Ave. and Fulton St. The original part of this house was built in 1885-86 for local grocer Robert C. Scripture and his wife Annie (Brown). It was later owned by Robert ... 15720 Silver Spur Saloon southeast corner of N. Oak and Rusk Streets 18509 Simmons-Maxwell House 607 Pearl Street This Arts and Crafts Mission Style home was built in 1915 by prominent civic leader, James W. Simmons, and his wife, Susan S. Gregg, granddaughter ... 6966 Site of Lacy Hotel 102 W. Oak Charles Christian Lacy (1816 - 70) moved with wife Sarah (Brown) from Kentucky to Texas, 1854; platted Denton townsite, 1855; had what is thought ... 11847 Skinner Cemetery Skinner Cemetery, east side of Debbie Lane, approximately 0.3 miles south of US 377 In the early days of Pilot Point, Lucinda (Glasscock) and Richard Skinner set aside a 2.44-acre piece of land to be used as a cemetery. The first ... 12390 Smith Cemetery 328 Smith Rd. This area of Denton County was known as Holford's Prairie in the mid-19th century, named for brothers John and James Halford (Holford), pioneer settlers ... 13563 St. Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church 509 Lakey Street St. Emmanuel began as the Second Baptist Church of Quakertown, an African American community within present Denton that existed from the mid-1880s ... 22701 St. John's Community (UNDERTOLD) marker pending marker pending 13908 St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church 925 N Charcut St St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church has provided for the spiritual needs of residents in this region since the late nineteenth century. Before that ... 12514 Swisher Cemetery 603 N. Shady Shores Rd. Reflecting the earliest years of Anglo settlement in this part of north central Texas, the Swisher Cemetery began on land granted to H. H. Swisher ...

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14324 Taylor Family Cemetery Oak Point Samuel L. (1806-1877) and Martha (1811-1875) Taylor, their sons Moses (1846-1875), Richard (1842-1922) and Benjamin (1836-1908), with his family, ... 16743 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station No. 6 From Denton exit I-35 North at U.S. Hwy 380, turn west, go 1.3 miles to Masch Branch Road, turn north and go .5 mile to intersection of Masch Branch and Hampton Road in Denton. DURING DENTON COUNTY’S EARLY YEARS, FARMING AND RANCHING WERE THE TRADITIONAL PURSUITS. WHEN THE RAILROADS ENTERED THE COUNTY, SUBSISTENCE FARMING ... 16439 Texas International Pop Festival Hebron Station, Denton County Transportation Authority The Texas International Pop Festival took place near this site during Labor Day weekend, 1969. It was held two weeks after the Woodstock Music and ... 5265 Texas Normal College northwest corner of courthouse square, corner of Elm and Oak (on furniture bldg. across street from courthouse) At this site, on the second floor of a hardware store, 70 students enrolled for the first session of Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute, ... 5309 The City of Denton Southeast corner of courthouse lawn, corner of Locust and Hickory Pioneers settled this locality in the 1840s. In 1846 the Texas Legislature created Denton County -- one of several carved from the Peters Colony ... 5333 The First Building of Texas Woman's University off Bell Avenue at College Street in front of Old Main Building in circular driveway on Texas Woman's University Campus, Denton The Girls Industrial Institute and College of Texas was created in 1901. Fourteen cities offered sites. Denton was chosen February 5, 1902. The cornerstone ... 5351 The Hedgcoxe War Historical Park, southeast corner of Blair Oaks Dr and South Colony Blvd Distribution of land in the Peters Colony of north Texas triggered a dispute known as the Hedgcoxe War. The Texas Emigration & Land Co. organized ... 23756 Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop NE intersection of FM 455 and FM 2450 After Emancipation, some formerly enslaved African Americans left rural farm life to work as skilled craft workers, including Thomas “Tom” Cook (c. ... 5587 Tyson Cemetery from Sanger, go north on IH-35/US 77 about 4.6 miles to FM 3002, go east on 3002 about 5.5 miles to FM 3442, go south on 3442 about 1.4 miles to intersection with CR, go east on CR about 3/4 mile to cemetery J. P. Newton (1821-56), a settler from Tennessee, is the earliest known burial in this cemetery. Charles Hammons (1854-64) has the second oldest ...