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DENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Retrospect
Another Miracle on Mulberry StreetInside this issue:
Miracle, con't
Historic Rock Building
CHOS Museum News
Bayless-Selby Lectures
Quakertown mural
Historical Commission
members
Mission
Special points of
interest:
" DCAAM Dedication
" DCAAM before and
after photos
" DCAAM dedication
pictures
" Historic Rock Building
gets new purpose with
before and after
photos
" Lectures and thanks
" Civic Center Public ArtThe new Denton County African-American Mu-
seum (DCAAM) was dedicated on Saturday,
February 16 at 2:00 p.m. Located in the Histori-
2 cal Park of Denton County at the corner of Car-
roll Boulevard and Mulberry Street, this museum
joins the Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum and
2 the Bayless-Selby House Museum as part of the
Denton County Museums.
3 Adjacent to the Bayless-Selby House Museum,
the museum is an original Quakertown house that
was restored under the guidance of the Histori-
cal Park Foundation of Denton County. The mu-
seum will include exhibits related to the historical
3 African American families of Denton County, the
Quakertown experience, and the collection of
4 Dr. Edwin D. Moten, Denton's first African Ameri-
can doctor. The exhibits reflect the resilience and
determination of the African American people of
4 Denton County.
The Story of the Quakertown House
This three-room house was built in 1904 and
was located at 607 Bell Avenue in the African
American community of Quakertown in Denton,
Texas. The house was built by H. F. Davidson for
Arthur and Docia Brewer. Later it was owned by
M. B. Whitlock, a white general contrac-
tor. Most likely, he rented the house to other
families. C. Ross Hembry, an African Americant I
The Quakertown house in 1945
resident of Quakertown, purchased the prop-
erty and the house in May 1919 from Mr.
Whitlock and his wife. Mr. Hembry also used it
as rental property. In 1920, Will Phillips, a
white city employee, and his family were listed
as living in the house. When the city of Denton
began buying property in Quakertown in 1922
to clear the land for Civic Center Park, Mr.
Hembry sold his property for $2,700 to the
city. He moved several houses to Solomon Hill
including this one, which was moved to 1113 E.
Hickory Street.
See Miracle on Page 2The Denton County
African American
Museum as it appears
today in the Denton
County Historical Park71
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