On Belew Road west of Massey Road, on the right when traveling west.
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 from Tennessee to Denton County. They stopped on a hill in the area later known as the Belew . . . — — Map (db m183758) HM
On South Washington Street south of West Main Street, on the left when traveling south.
Attracted by fertile land and abundant water and game, pioneers began to settle at this site near the edge of the Crosstimber region in the late 1840s. The village, first known as Pilot's Point, was named for a high point of timber that served . . . — — Map (db m183675) HM
On White Street west of South Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west.
This congregation organized about 1865, twenty years after members of the Peters Colony began settling here. In 1874 the church deacons purchased land at this site from George W. and Alice B. Merchant. A one-room frame chapel was constructed here . . . — — Map (db m183761) HM
On East Main Street west of South Church Street, on the left when traveling west.
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). In its early years, "The Post" supported the Democratic party and local commerce and opposed the . . . — — Map (db m183674) HM
Near North Charcut Street at East Carroll Street, on the right when traveling north.
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church has provided for the spiritual needs of residents in this region since the late nineteenth century. Before that time, Catholics in the town of Pilot Point, organized in 1854, had no nearby place of worship. Early . . . — — Map (db m218334) HM