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By Andy Rhodes, Managing Editor, The Medallion

There isn’t much material evidence of World War I in Texas. There are former training airfields, museums with weaponry exhibits, and parks containing honorary memorials, but travelers need to dig a little deeper to find a truly meaningful experience. In fact, the Great War’s Lone Star legacy is most poignant in the real stories...

The catastrophic destruction Hurricane Harvey left in Rockport-Fulton on August 25, 2017 was beyond devastating for all the people who called this place home.

The town’s Fulton Mansion State Historic Site—one of the Texas Historical Commission’s 22 historic sites and rated first on the list of things to see in Rockport-Fulton—suffered significant damage. The hurricane...

Earlier this year, the Texas Historical Commission welcomed two interns to Austin for nearly two months of summer school through the agency’s Preservation Scholars program.

Two college students—Calvin Blair and Halee Robinson—accepted the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission’s invitation to participate in the summer program. They spent much of the summer working with the...

This article was originally featured in the September 1990 issue of The Medallion.

In 1907, a group of enterprising Brenham residents began making butter from the extra cream supplied by area farms. They sold the butter locally. That was the humble beginning of the Brenham Creamery Company, now Blue Bell Creameries, one of the largest manufacturers of frozen snacks in the...