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Post-Signal March 8, 1912 Page 3 Newspaper clipping from the Post-Signal in Pilot Point, Texas. It discusses the reduction in cotton acreage for Denton County by 30% in accordance with the Farmers Union.
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Quadrant 1: St. John's Cemetery
Quadrant 1 of 14 shows the graves of Vaughner and Allen families as well as a number of unknown marked graves
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Post-Signal February 16, 1912 Page 5 Newspaper page from the Post-Signal in Pilot Point, Texas. It contains an article titled “The 1912 Corn Club” which encourages boys aged 10-20 years old to plant and cultivate an acre of corn. Boys who participate will have chances for prizes and the school offered several demonstrations for the Club’s purposes. It also contains an article discussing the town’s desire for the railroad to build a new depot.
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Post-Signal February 2, 1912 Page 5 Newspaper clipping from the Post-Signal in Pilot Point, Texas. It discusses the number of poll taxes paid in Denton County and Pilot Point.
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Post-Signal January 19, 1912 Page 3 Newspaper clipping from the Post-Signal in Pilot Point, Texas. It discusses how Pilot Point should build a cotton mill to take advantage of the demands for cheap cotton goods.
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Death Certificate: Mattie Finch Washington Mattie’s death certificate identifies her mother’s maiden name (Pitts) and is the only piece of evidence we have, besides her grave, that proves her existence in Texas.
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Map of Walker County (do later)
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1898 Denton County Judges Report of Scholastic Year A newspaper article detailing Denton County school statistics for the 1897-1898 school year
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1900 Federal Census, Cooke, Texas Angeline's Mother & Father listed in the 1900 Census; Justice Precinct 3, Cooke, Texas.
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Angeline Williamson's brother Andrew J. Williamson Angeline's brothers headstone found at Pilot Point Memorial Cemetery
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Map of Houston's Fourth Ward Houston, "Houston Wards," Downtown Houston. https://www.downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/photos/2015-08-06/Map-of-Houston-Wards.jpg (April 11, 2018).
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The Development of the Public Schools of Denton County, Texas, 1900-1942 A thesis on the history and development of Denton Public Schools written by Ruth Autry Oliver and published in May of 1943. The thesis was completed for the Department of Education at North Texas State Teachers College and compares white schools and colored schools.
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Pages from Wiley College 1902 Yearbook Pages 46 and 60 from the Wiley College 1902 Yearbook featuring two students from Pilot Point: J. F. Everett, and Marion P. Penn
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Denton City Council Sees Petition for New Colored School An article detailing a July 1896 Denton City Council Meeting. In it, the Council was petitioned by "the colored people" for a school building. The motion passed.
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Professor Trimble Reports Harassment A short article in The Pilot Point Post-Mirror Vol.9, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1896 in which Professor Trimble of the Pilot Point Colored School reports than some white boys have been abusing his students on their ways home.
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Class Photo of the First Graduating Class of Booker T. Washington High School, 1926 An old photo dated 1926 of the first four-year graduating class of Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, Texas. Photo is captioned "Class of 1926 Booker Washington Hi Dallas Tex." There are 33 students pictured along with Professor Joseph J. Rhoads and Priscilla I. Tyler, teachers at the school who are in the front row near the center.
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The Dallas Express June 26, 1920 Page 7 Advises readers to go see the Samuel Huston College Choral Club play at the Opera House. This is a newspaper clipping of the Texas Towns- Pilot Point section of The Dallas Express
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Dallas Landmark Designation Report for Booker T. Washington High School The Dallas Landmark Designation Report for Booker T. Washington High School filed in June of 1988. The report argues for the designation of the school as a Historical Landmark based on its history. Additional images were added in February of 2003.
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The Dallas Express November 15, 1919 Page 10 Myrtle Boyd left for Bishop College, in Marshall, Texas. This is a newspaper clipping of the Texas Towns- Pilot Point section of The Dallas Express.
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The Dallas Express November 8, 1919 Page 9 Cartie Lee Combes entered into the second year class at Bishop College. Prof. E. W. D. Love and the school under him sends out boys and girls to make good, the professor also wrote donations for a rally.
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CME Church Circuits (1883) Information extracted from the Minutes of the Northwest Texas Annual CME Conference. In rural areas, church ministers often traveled to more than one church in the area. Often, these ministers were referred to as "traveling preachers" or "circuit riders."
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I.M. Terrell High School Graduating Class of 1921 An image of the graduating class for 1921 of the IM Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Texas. The 13 students are pictured on the front steps of the high school.
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Fred Douglass School Panoramic A panoramic photo of the Fred Douglass - later Fred Moore - school obtained from the Denton County Office of History and Culture.
The photo belonged to Alice Moore Alexander, who allowed Denton County Museums to scan the photograph sometime before her death in 2007. The back of the photo said 1941, but could have been as early as the early 1930s. In the photograph, Fred Moore is standing on the far left and Alice is standing near him with a ball in her hand. Alice joined the faculty in 1928.
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Congregation at Mt. Pilgrim CME Church, Denton, TX (1939) Congregation at Mt. Pilgrim CME Church, located in Denton, TX. Photo was taken in 1939.
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The Dallas Express June 5, 1920 Page 6 Mrs. M. M. McKinney and her assistant, Miss Ophelia Adams, return to Greenville after closing a successful school term in Pilot Point. This is a newpaper clipping from the Texas Towns- Greenville section of the Dallas Express.