107 entries match your criteria. Entries 101 through 107 are listed.
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Denton is the county seat for Denton County
101 ► Texas, Denton County, Sanger — 4568 — Sanger Presbyterian Church — |
On 7th Street at Elm Street, on the left when traveling north on 7th Street. |
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 and civic programs; elocution and music were taught here. Community bought building when congregation . . . — — Map (db m192652) HM |
102 ► Texas, Denton County, The Colony — Belz Road Bridge at Duck Creek — Denton County Historic Landmark — |
Near South Colony Boulevard at Blair Oaks Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
Belz Road Bridge is a four-panel Warren pony truss steel bridge erected in the early 1900s. It crossed Duck Creek in northwestern Denton County on land purchased by Josh B. Nance in 1898. Belz Road was named for the Alfred and Bertha Belz family . . . — — Map (db m191886) HM |
103 ► Texas, Denton County, The Colony — 508 — Bridges Cemetery — |
On Chesapeake Drive, 0.1 miles west of Morning Star Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
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 the Peters Colony. This cemetery, on land granted to Bridges in 1850, dates to 1855, although illegible . . . — — Map (db m212316) HM |
104 ► Texas, Denton County, The Colony — 22723 — David Gregory Fox Jr. — (August 17, 1923 - December 25, 2003) — |
On South Colony Boulevard at Blair Oaks Drive, on the left when traveling west on South Colony Boulevard. |
Born in Casper, Wyoming, David G. Fox Jr. graduated from Highland Park High School and then attended Texas A&M University for a year and a half before serving as a Navy pilot in World War II. After the war, Fox continued his education at Southern . . . — — Map (db m234597) HM |
105 ► Texas, Denton County, The Colony — 5351 — The Hedgcoxe War — |
On Blair Oaks Drive at South Colony Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Blair Oaks Drive. |
Distribution of land in the Peters Colony of North Texas triggered a dispute known as the Hedgcoxe War. The Texas Emigration & Land Co. organized the colony under an 1841 Republic of Texas law which allowed it to keep one-half of a settler's . . . — — Map (db m184815) HM |
106 ► Texas, Denton County, Westlake — 4285 — Roanoke I.O.O.F. Cemetery — |
On JT Ottinger Road east of Highway 170, on the right when traveling east. |
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 at this site in 1897 for use as a burial ground. Consisting of approximately five and one-half acres, . . . — — Map (db m184583) HM |
107 ► Texas, Denton County, Westlake — Westlake and the Circle T Ranch — |
On Dove Road, 0.3 miles west of Blue Sky Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
The Circle T Ranch was established by J. Glenn Turner, a prominent Texas attorney in 1952. Mr. Turner was an avid outdoorsman and rancher who raised Black Angus and Charolaise cattle, as well as Tennessee Walking horses. Being a successful . . . — — Map (db m107373) HM |
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