City of Denton, Texas
N 33° 12.895 W 097° 07.990
14S E 673980 N 3676666
The city of Denton, TX as referenced in the 1940 Works Projects Administration Guide to Texas book - over 700 pages. #2780
Waymark Code: WMT9R9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2016
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Per the 1940 WPA Guide to Texas, Tour 7:
DENTON, 39 m. (620 alt., 9,587 pop.), is the home of the North
Texas State Teachers College and the Texas State College for Women,
with a combined scholastic population of more than 4,000. A quiet
college town, its streets are lined with neat frame houses, many with
signs announcing board and rooms. Stores cater to the college trade,
and college students serve as waiters in the restaurants. Denton has
unusually beautiful roses in almost every yard.
In the vicinity is a Texas agricultural experiment station, where
many small tracts of land are devoted to the cultivation of flowers,
especially roses, and a large ranch that specializes in the breeding and raising of Shetland ponies and mules.
Denton has definitely grown in the last 65 years to a population of over 100,000 residents, and over 30,000 students, quite a bit more than the nearly 7,000 residents and 4,000 students in 1940.
The once quiet college town is now a crowded and bustling major area of the Dallas/Fort Worth MSA, complete with the burdens of a quickly-growing town, such as traffic, infrastructure failures and crime.
The universities are now named The University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University.
Book: Texas
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 426
Year Originally Published: 1940
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