Through the donations of community members, a collection of artifacts
and letters from Dr. Edwin D. Moten, Sr. were acquired and are part of the Denton County African American Museum.
This project was made possible in part from a grant from Humanities Texas,
the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Moten and his family were early residents of Quakertown, residing in Denton from 1907-1920.
He was the only African American physician in Denton County during that time period. In 1920, he and his family moved to Indianapolis.
The collection includes more than 600 letters written by Dr. Moten to family, friends, and professional colleagues as well as photographs,
postcards, medical records, medicine cases, his medical shingle from in front of his office, prescription pads and narcotics register from Denton County.
