In 1903, The Girls Industrial Institute and College of Texas -- which would later become Texas Woman’s University -- opened on sixty-seven acres donated to the institution just north of Quakertown. Immediately south of Quakertown were two streets known as “silk stocking row” for their density of prostitution. By 1916, the student population of the Girls Industrial Institute and College of Texas, renamed College of Industrial Arts, swelled to 1,600 white women. In the same year, the United Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a statue of a Confederate soldier topping an arch on the courthouse lawn in downtown Denton. The first screening of Birth of a Nation in Denton County was at the College of Industrial Arts on January 17, 1917. Within three years, women gained the right to vote when the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. Women began to wear makeup, bob their hair, and purchase shorter skirts from department stores in urban areas. Liberation came. Within four months, Denton County had established its first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.