I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

The Texas & Pacific Railway Depot in Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas was abandoned in 1961 and put up for sale in 1964.

An unpublished and undated engineer's report details a plan to connect McKinney to Paris with an interurban railway.

After the Battle of Village Creek, the Republic of Texas signed the Fort Bird Treaty of 1842.

Discovery of an ancient village at Fish Creek, formerly a channel of the Red River in Cooke County, Texas, explains Cross Timbers people.

Photos by THC in the 1970s depict the Thompson House, Grayson County's oldest, still extant structure. Well, kind of.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.

Crutchfield Cemetery is an African American burial ground that is all but forgotten among a a construction boom in eastern Denton County.

The Scott-Barker House and St. Paul Baptist Church contribute to worries about preserving the past of fast-growing Melissa in Collin County.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

Pressler's 1867 shows Warren's Trading House sandwiched between Panther and Salt Creek (TX), and near Red Creek (OK), but not on Mud Creek.

A PERFECT example of Mid-Century Modern still exists in downtown Sherman.

Photographs of downtown Denison (Grayson County, Texas) are always so giving: fun to post, fun to research, and fun to look at!

Whenever I saw Locke's Tin Shop in downtown Sherman, I thought it the prettiest building I'd ever seen.

In the 1950s, salty Estelline Spring at the Prairie Dog Town Fork released 300 tons of the mineral daily into the Red River.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

Epperson's Ferry served the Trammel Trace across the Sulphur River in Bowie County.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Killgore Mansion is tied to the Cloud Stark Mansion of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas... and it's not just based on the time period.