Blog Posts About THC

This article was originally featured in the November/December 1995 issue of The Medallion.

Not one, not two, but a record-breaking eight historical markers were dedicated recently in historic Thurber, a coal mining ghost town located 75 miles west of Fort Worth.

Founded in the 1880s by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, Thurber at its height was the largest town...

This article was originally featured in the September/October 1992 issue of The Medallion.

Maurice de Leleu was one of three children, the son of 19th-century Flemish immigrants who traveled from Belgium to New York City. In 1908, his parents died, and he was taken in by the Children’s Aid Society, a charitable institution for waifs.

In 1912, De Leleu and a group of...

On Friday, November 30, the THC held a dedication ceremony for the Porvenir Massacre Undertold Marker.

With Texas’ proximity to the Mexican Revolution and U.S. involvement in World War I, the nation confronted racial and social instability that fed, and fed on, the bloody conflicts.

Schemes to claim tracts of the U.S. for Mexico were publicized—some might say...

By Anne Ruppert, Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site

Christmas at Sam Rayburn’s house this year felt a little bit like it did 100 years ago.

2018 marked the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Armistice (November 11, 1918) which effectively ended World War I. On Saturday, December 8 the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site continued its look back at the war...