Quakertown History

2021 year marks the 100th anniversary of the dissolution of Quakertown, a thriving Black neighborhood founded in the 1880s as a freedmen community just south of Texas Woman's University’s campus. In 1921, TWU’s president, alongside local white civic leaders and women’s clubs, led a campaign to pass a bond vote that displaced over sixty families and black-owned businesses to create a municipal park and site for the city hall, civic center, public library, and public pool that remain in Denton to this very day.