John B Denton - Denton Texas - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

Historical Marker Text:
Pioneers settled this locality in the 1840's. In 1846 the Texas Legislature created Denton county -- one of several carved from the Peters Colony grant. After trying other sites, the voters in 1856 accepted for county seat this tract donated by Hiram Cisco, William Loving, and William Woodruff. The city and county were named for John B. Denton (1806-41), a minister killed while defending frontier settlers. Woodruff, fellow surveyor C. C. Lacy, and attorney Otis Welch platted the townsite. In 1857 city lots were auctioned, the post office opened, and a church was founded. J. M. Blount, Joseph A. Carroll, W. F. Egan, and I. D. Ferguson were pioneer leaders. A cotton gin and plants for making bricks, corn meal, flour and ice soon developed. The "Monitor," a newspaper, began its career in 1868. Sam Bass (1851-78), legendary western outlaw, trained and raced The Denton Mare while living and working as a local farm hand. North Texas State University originated here as Texas Normal College in 1890, and Texas Woman's University opened in 1903 as the College of Industrial Arts. Agriculture-related businesses, education, and small factories sustain the economy. The city grew from 1,194 in its first census (1880) to 39,874 by 1970. (1977)

Editors note: As of 2009, Denton's population is 115,506 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 36.04%.

Year it was dedicated: . Location of Coordinates: County Courthouse Related Web address (if available): [Web Link] Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Courthouse

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log User Rating   10/09/2023 FLMathfreak visited it 03/11/2018 8Nuts MotherGoose visited it 03/10/2018 allenmabry visited it 10/08/2017 The Snowdog visited it 04/01/2017 WalksfarTX visited it 03/27/2016 ClaraJean/JLDossett visited it 10/02/2015 sky-seeker visited it 03/14/2015 Benchmark Blasterz visited it 02/08/2015 OMR visited it 01/02/2015 TerraViators visited it 12/13/2014 OcrazyS visited it 10/12/2014 wb96bobwhite visited it 09/30/2014 KidWrangler visited it 09/30/2014 KidWrangler visited it 07/24/2014 gramakitty visited it 12/08/2013 QuarrellaDeVil visited it 12/15/2011 CatBert visited it 10/13/2009 txoilgas visited it 07/01/2009 Geojeepsters visited it

View all visits/logs