After the success of the city’s 31 days of Denton Halloween last year, it decided to pursue an official title for its spooky ...

So in 1839, after Mirabeau B. Lamar became president of Texas, the capital was moved to a Central Texas settlement on the Colorado River named Waterloo, later renamed in honor of Stephen F. Austin.

Introduced in February by Texas state Rep. Richard Hayes, a Denton native, HCR 86 is a resolution that lays the groundwork to officially recognize the town as the Halloween Capital of Texas “for ...

The Texas House of Representatives first recognized Lockhart as the Barbecue Capital of Texas in May 1999 in a resolution that recalled the town’s prime location on the historic Chisholm Trail.