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ST JOHN'S Cemetery: A report detailing how Denton County Commissioner Hub Clark stole a cemetery from a Pilot Point freedpersons community in 1938. (open access)

ST JOHN'S Cemetery: A report detailing how Denton County Commissioner Hub Clark stole a cemetery from a Pilot Point freedpersons community in 1938.

This report was submitted to the Denton County Commissioner’s Court on December 12, 2023. The independent research contained herein was inspired by a collaborative community effort to highlight the emerging historical narrative of the St. John's freed-persons community of Pilot Point, its unexplained disappearance in the 1930s, and the events that led to the community's cemetery becoming landlocked and inaccessible to the public for more than eighty years.
Date: December 12, 2023
Creator: Luther Rummel, Jessica
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix C: Land Acquisition and Conveyance Transactions Among the Jones, Everly, and Johnson Families (open access)

Appendix C: Land Acquisition and Conveyance Transactions Among the Jones, Everly, and Johnson Families

This appendix presents data relating to the acquisition, ownership and transfer of land by the Jones, Everly, Johnson, and related families. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: Genealogical Data for the Jones, Everly, and Johnson Families (open access)

Appendix D: Genealogical Data for the Jones, Everly, and Johnson Families

This appendix provides genealogical data for the direct descendants of Pollie Jones-Jones-Burden, George Washington Jones and Easter Ann Montgomery, and John Johnson and Susan Self. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: Population Census for Jones, Everly, Johnson, and Related Families Residing in the Project Area and Vicinity (open access)

Appendix E: Population Census for Jones, Everly, Johnson, and Related Families Residing in the Project Area and Vicinity

This appendix provides population census data for the Jones, Johnson, Everly, and related families in the project area. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: Tax Roll Data for the Jones, Everly, Johnson, and Related Families in the Project Area or Vicinity Between 1850 and 1910 (open access)

Appendix F: Tax Roll Data for the Jones, Everly, Johnson, and Related Families in the Project Area or Vicinity Between 1850 and 1910

This appendix provides data on the real estate and personal property owned by a selected group of families or individuals in the Ray Roberts Lake project area. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix A: Jones Cemetery (open access)

Appendix A: Jones Cemetery

This appendix contains an alphabetized and annotated list of burials identified in Jones Cemetery, with available birth and death rates. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: Texas General Land Office Archives: Data on Selected Land Surveys Related to Settlement of Johnson Park and Vicinity (open access)

Appendix B: Texas General Land Office Archives: Data on Selected Land Surveys Related to Settlement of Johnson Park and Vicinity

The information in this appendix was abstracted from the original land record files. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about user-centered design for language archives captions transcript

Speech about user-centered design for language archives

Video recording of a presentation discussing user-centered design for language archives. This was presented during the afternoon session on "Archive and database usability" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Willis Oko, Christina
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Neighborhood Price Externalities of Foreclosure Rehabilitation: An Examination of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

This article examines the neighborhood price impacts of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funded foreclosure rehabilitation undertaken by Habitat for Humanity in Dallas County, Texas using a difference-in-difference framework.
Date: January 12, 2017
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Jha, Nikhil & Zhang, Lei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas (open access)

What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas

This paper discusses a survey of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Jason L.; Rollins, Dale & Reyna, Kelly S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science (open access)

The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science

This paper discusses the Texas Quail Index, a 5-year citizen science project that evaluated several indices as predictors of bobwhite productivity and abundance during the subsequent fall.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S.; Rollins, Dale & Ransom Jr., Dean
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating the Economic Impact of Universities: The Case of Bowling Green State University (open access)

Estimating the Economic Impact of Universities: The Case of Bowling Green State University

This article describes the results of an economic impact study of Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
Date: 2006
Creator: Carroll, Michael C. & Smith, Bruce W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study (open access)

Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study

This article examines the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Cooper-McCann, Rebecca; Ayers, Colby; Berrigan, David; Lian, Min; McClurkin, Michael et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits (open access)

Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits

This article describes a systematic neighborhood observation instrument for collecting data at very high spatial resolution to collect data in a low-income minority neighborhood in Dallas, TX.
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Mays, Judith K. & Murdoch, James
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Predicts Weight Gain in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Longitudinal Data from the Dallas Heart Study (open access)

Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Predicts Weight Gain in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Longitudinal Data from the Dallas Heart Study

This article examines the relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic deprivation and weight change in a multi-ethnic cohort from Dallas County, Texas, and whether behavioral/psychosocial factors attenuate the relationship.
Date: May 27, 2014
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Ayers, Colby; Agyemang, Priscilla; Leonard, Tammy; Berrigan, David; Ballard Barbash, Rachel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population (open access)

Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population

This article examines sedentary pastimes specifically in low-income, minority communities in the United States.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Leonard, Tammy; Murdoch, James; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Kohl, Harold W. & Sugg Skinner, Celette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pathways to Financial Advancement: A Case Study (open access)

Pathways to Financial Advancement: A Case Study

This article describes a research project conducted in a South Dallas neighborhood to study how gateways and stepping stones can put households on a path to financial security.
Date: 2012
Creator: Di, Wenhua; Leonard, Tammy & Ryder, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the COlorado (open access)

River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the COlorado

This article reviews the book "River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado" by Wade Davis.
Date: November 4, 2013
Creator: La Point, Thomas W., 1949-
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming (open access)

Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming

This article contains an analysis of 16 microstatellite loci from 300 Greater Sage-Grouse individuals to assess genetic structure among populations in Wyoming and southeast Montana.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Schulwitz, Sarah; Bedrosian, Bryan & Johnson, Jeff A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas (open access)

The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas

This article examines overall trends in toxic chemical generation, releases and management in Texas from 1995 to 1999 within the broad context of sustainable industrial production.
Date: 2001
Creator: Lyons, Donald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks (open access)

Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks

Patent relating to a method and apparatus both for improving execution performance and for protecting memory system against some side channel attacks.
Date: November 22, 2012
Creator: Kavi, Krishna M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Porositization Process of Carbon or Carbonaceous Materials (open access)

Porositization Process of Carbon or Carbonaceous Materials

Patent relating to porositized carbon processed from carbon or carbonaceous materials.
Date: March 14, 2014
Creator: Shi, Sheldon Q. & Xia, Changlei
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single Reflective Optical Element for Interference Lithography (open access)

Single Reflective Optical Element for Interference Lithography

Patent relating to optical elements for use in interference lithography.
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey & George, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunable Polymer-Based Sonic Structures (open access)

Tunable Polymer-Based Sonic Structures

Patent relating to methods and devices for controlling the propagation of sound and particularly to tunable polymer-based sonic structures.
Date: November 14, 2013
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Neogi, Arup & Cai, Tong
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library