What changed it were the schools. In 1890 the Texas Normal College — today the University of North Texas, one of the largest universities in the state — opened its doors, and in 1901 the Girls' Industrial College, now Texas Woman's University, followed. Two universities in a town this size set the tempo: tens of thousands of students, a year-round calendar of concerts and games and festivals, and a downtown that has been a college town's downtown for well over a century. UNT's music school alone grew into one of the largest in the nation.
Today Denton is a college-and-music town that kept its courthouse square and its frontier name — the cultural capital of North Texas, equal parts students, musicians, and county-seat history. Our Denton designs gather that identity — the longhorn-and-star, the 1896 courthouse, the live-music square — into wearable form. Denton, Texas — Little Austin on the square, where the students set the tempo.
Why People Visit Denton
Denton offers the energy of a music town and the ease of a small Texas city — a beautiful courthouse square, a deep live-music calendar, two universities, and a creative streak that earned it the nickname “Little Austin.” It's walkable, friendly, and unmistakably North Texas.
