Denton Live - History

Denton’s Historical Park

Ever-present Past – Budding park celebrates county’s history

Bill Marquis’ hands are like battered baseball mitts. His fingernails are packed with the grime of the morning’s work. Dirt and sweat fleck his T-shirt and cap, even his snow-white beard.

alt The hum of machines surrounds George Blackwood as he stands over his band bender, making a cowboy’s spur. All around him – on the walls of the welding shop, above his desk – are pictures of his father.

Denton Municipal Airport

The little airport that could: Denton Municipal Airport stops at nothing to deliver

Denton airport A jet engine roars and spits out heat hot enough to melt asphalt, but it’s not the runway that the engine is trying to melt. It’s the snow on the runway.