A room inside Denison ISD's new administration building now holds more than a century of Yellow Jacket history, from letter jackets and yearbooks to a podium a president once spoke from.
The Denison Alumni Museum has reopened there in space that once served as a library, KTEN reported. The museum began as a small collection across the street from the former high school, and the new room is about three times that size, Denison historian Brian Hander told the station.
The district offered the space, he said, and moving in took months of packing and unpacking and sorting through hundreds of boxes.
"It's been a labor of love, but it's turned out really, really well," Hander told KTEN.
What is on display
The collection mixes school spirit with district records. Visitors will find old uniforms and yearbooks, a trophy awarded to Denison students nearly a century ago, and scrapbooks kept by students as far back as 1916.
Archives from some of the city's earliest schools are there too, including records from Houston Elementary that list students' ages, where they lived and what their parents did for a living, according to Hander.
