Friday, July 22, 2016 - 8:00am
THC staff review the gamut of historic property types, from picturesque courthouses to modest farmsteads. Part of Texas’ heritage is our infrastructure—the systems that provide our road networks, power grids, industry, and support for our daily lives. These systems have a large effect on the design of neighborhoods, the success of businesses, and the shape of our...
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 7:45am
By Linda Henderson, THC Historian
Introducing Infrastructure IntermissionTHC staff review the gamut of historic property types, from picturesque courthouses to modest farmsteads. Part of Texas’ heritage is our infrastructure—the systems that provide our road networks, power grids, industry, and support for our daily lives. These systems have a large effect on the design of...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 8:00am
Interview with Dennis Boots of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association by Rob Hodges, THC Social Media Coordinator
On September 19, 2015, a convoy of historic military vehicles set out from Washington, D.C. for a 3,400-mile journey along the old Bankhead Highway. The procession will reach San Diego on October 17, having crossed 11 states, including Texas, in 29 days. Officially...
Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 9:10pm
By Bob Brinkman, Historical Markers Program Coordinator
Unfortunately, every now and then we get calls like we did this month from Beeville. Dr. Barbara Welder, marker chair for the Bee County Historical Commission, called to report that the historical marker for St. Rose Cemetery had been stolen.
If a marker is damaged, vandalized, or stolen near you, here are some things you...
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 5:12pm
By Leslie Wolfenden, Historic Resources Survey Coordinator
For the past year and half, THC staff, along with historic resource management consultant Hardy-Heck-Moore, Inc. (HHM), has been working on the Bankhead Highway project under the Texas Historic Roads and Highways Program. The Bankhead Highway was one of the nation’s earliest transcontinental highways, dating to 1916 and...
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 12:03pm
By Bob Brinkman, Historical Marker Program Coordinator, and William McWhorter, Military Sites Program Coordinator
In June 1941, more than 1,100 acres in Grayson County near Sherman were designated for a U. S. Army Air Corps basic flight training field. On December 16, 1941, the first class of flight students arrived at Perrin Air Field, named for Lt. Col. Elmer D. Perrin, a Texas test...
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 11:13am
By Lara Newcomer, historian, and William McWhorter, THC Military Historian
In May 2011, THC Military Historian William McWhorter and Lara Newcomer, a contracted historian for our Texas in World War II initiative, had the opportunity of a lifetime for an oral historian: the chance to interview four living World War II veterans, all brothers, during one day. As part of the THC’s Texas in...
Friday, August 30, 2013 - 4:53pm
By Leslie Wolfenden, THC Historic Resources Survey Coordinator
Recently, I was traveling back to Austin from Childress with THC National Register of Historic Places staff Greg Smith and Carlyn Hammons. We had been conducting a historic resources survey in Childress, following on the heels of the successful collaborative survey project in Pittsburg that led to the creation of a National...
Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 10:12pm
By William McWhorter, Military Sites Program Coordinator
Since 2008, the Kinney County Historical Commission (CHC) has been of tremendous support to the Military Sites Program with historic documentation on Fort Clark during World War II, in addition to providing valuable info about other periods of the fort’s history. From 2008–11, on three occasions former Kinney CHC Chair Bill Haenn...
Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 12:00am
We celebrate Upton County Historical Commission (CHC) because they are proud of the history that is particular to their region and create ways for people of all ages to engage in fun, history-related experiences that preserves culture and traditions.
Project Name: Upton CHC Celebrates National Day of the Cowboy
Organization: Upton County Historical Commission
Location: ...
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