Confederate veterans from the Sul Ross Camp pose in front of the Denton TX Courthouse during a 1902 reunion.
If you’d like to get caught up on our Denton history feature “Back in the Day” that we contribute to Denton’s best arts & culture blog WE DENTON DO IT, here’s what we’ve been writing about since the last update:
The Confederate Soldiers Monument on the south side of the Denton Courthouse Square has again rightly come under scrutiny after #BlackLivesMatter controversies in the national news, but what is the deal with how the Confederate Monument got there, anyway? You can then check out the moving story of Denton desegregation via high school football in our ‘When We Were All Broncos’ documentary review, and the moving story of Denton’s Civil Rights Mavens of Integration who eased the transitions for schoolkids. There’s also an essay on important Juneteenth history that has shaped our African-American communities in Texas.
1918 UDC Confederate Soldier Memorial.
The amazing Women of Denton Past tells about some notable ladies-about-town, as does our “Ode to Denton Foremothers” done for Mother’s Day.
Denton had its fair share of wonky weather in 2015, which reminded us of “The Great Blue Norther of 1911” that was a wild winterpocalypse!
This past spring, we created a fun scavenger hunt true to the legends of Sam Bass Gold said to be hidden in and around Denton!
Denton also has a lot of weird offbeat Denton sites, which you can check out in our first installment and then volume two to plan your urban adventures!
Denton Haunts and Ghost Stories 