Denton: African American Museum in Denton County Historical Park

Small wood framed house with porch
Exhibit panels with photos and text

Museum exhibits about the Quakertown neighborhood

Five women in white dresses in a neighborhood

Group of girls in Quakertown (Denton County Office of History and Culture)

A man and two children standing on the porch of a wood framed store

Crawford’s Store in Quakertown (Denton County Office of History and Culture)

Small wooden case with cork-stopped bottles with note that says Medicines Contained in this Case, F.E. Boericke, Homeopathic Chemist

Homeopathy medicines used by Dr. Moten

Portrait of Dr. Edwin D. Moten

Dr. Edwin D. Moten, Denton County's only African-American physician 1907-1920.

Two women and one man in coats standing in front of a picket fence

Three members of the Hill family, taken in Quakertown, 1910. (Texas History Collection, Portal to Texas History)

Group of people posing for a picture

Group of people in Quakertown (UNT Oral History Program)

The African American Museum is located in a 1904 house that once belonged to the displaced African American community of Quakertown. Now restored and moved back near its original location, the museum chronicles the lives of the African American families of Denton County and the Quakertown experience. The award-winning museum has an interesting collection of papers and medical supplies of Dr. Edwin D. Moten, Denton’s first African American doctor.

African American Museum in Denton County Historical Park

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