Denton County, Texas
The Colony has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Denton County. The marker list includes records dating to 1975. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement, military, battle, and texas revolution sites. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.
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Distribution of land in the Peters Colony of north Texas triggered a dispute known as the Hedgcoxe War. The Texas Emigration & Land Co. organized the colony under an 1841 Republic of Texas law which allowed it to keep…
View on map ↗Bridges settlement, named for the W. A. Bridges family and reportedly the oldest in Denton county, began in 1843 and was a center of activity of the Peters Colony. This cemetery, on land granted to Bridges in 1850,…
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