Green pill bottle tucked out of site. Please post pics of the house with you log if you can. Thanks! Feel free to walk around as this is a Denton County Historical Park. Below is some info from the Musuem. The Bayless-Selby House Museum is the first historical house museum in Denton County. It was opened on Saturday, September 29, 2001. The community had waited for three years watching the metamorphosis of a house into a museum and there was a definite air of excitement everywhere as the day drew near. We have had a wonderful response in the almost five years since that Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, and more than 12,000 visitors from as far away as Iceland and Australia and as near as the neighbor across the road have been to see the exhibits. They have watched the Victorian gardens grow, smelled the antique roses, and enjoyed the succulent herbs and vegetables in the garden just outside the kitchen window. The community hopes to enjoy many more Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies in the Historical Park of Denton County, and there may be another one in the not too distant future if all the plans for the restoration of one of the Quakertown houses in Denton come to fruition in the next year or so. There are also discussions about a log cabin, and that might mean that a kiln now in storage could be moved onto the property. As was quoted when the Museum opened, No one has been left untouched by the spirit of this project whether by its sheer Majesty or its future potential as a statement by a community that wants its stories told and retold through revitalization. History The Museum's history began long ago when Samuel Bayless decided to purchase a two-room farmhouse about a mile or so from the Denton County Courthouse in Denton. Samuel was from Monroe County, Tennessee, and he made his purchase in 1884. He then proceeded to build onto this farmhouse what we describe as a Queen Anne-style Victorian two-story house, with a wrap-around porch. He, his wife, and five children enjoyed the house until November, 1919, when Samuel died after an altercation on the property. Mrs. Bayless subsequently sold the house to their friends, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Selby, who moved into it on Thanksgiving Day, 1920. The Selby family lived there with their four children, until the children left, and the elder Selbys passed away. The house was sold by the Selby children in 1970. Some twenty years passed, during which time the City of Denton took over the house, leaving it until 1998 when it was time to enlarge the electrical plant on the adjoining property. At that time, the City held an auction for the house to be sold and moved. One of the residents of Denton, Mrs. Mildred Hawk, made the successful bid and purchased the house. She was a member of the Denton County Historical Commission, and she gave the house to the Commission so that it could become a museum for the benefit of the community. Subsequently, all the decisions were made, committees formed, fundraising successfully completed, and the house was transformed into a museum, being handed over to Denton County on September 11, 2001. It is now a County property.