Denton, TX news and local guide

On July 8, 1860, about half of the downtown square burned, one of fires in ten Texas towns that day, including Dallas and Pilot Point, during what were called the "Texas Troubles." The fires were quickly blamed on a slave insurrection, and by the end of July vigilantes had taken over, hanging many Black people and white abolitionists although no hard evidence was ever produced against any of them. In February 1861 Texas voters chose to join the Confederacy. After the Civil War, Freedmen settlements grew up across the South. One of them, Quakertown, thrived just south of what is now Texas Woman's University until around 1920, when the city government forcibly removed its residents to make way for a park. Quakertown's Black children attended the separate Frederick Douglass School. Sources Wikipedia: Denton, Texas