Kids learning to make pinch pots.

Generation Serve - Make Pinch Pots

Join Generation Serve to help make clay pinch pot kits for the upcoming Texas Archeology Month.

A wooden spinning wheel with spindles and raw fiber rests on a table.

Spinning and Weaving

Learn more about traditional spinning and weaving at a demonstration from the Bay Area Weavers and Spinners every second Saturday at the San Jacinto Museum.

Image of a bison laying in green grass

Bison: The One Stop Shop

What would we do without Walmart? Come learn how the Native Americans accomplished it. Programs at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00 and are included in the general admission price.

Port Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site Summer Camp 2024

Port Isabel Lighthouse Keeper's Summer Camp [8/14]

Experience the life of a modern-day Lighthouse Keeper and travel back in time nearly 500 years for stories of shipwrecks and rescues. Includes a treasure hunt!

A line of six men dressed in 1830s period clothing fire muskets while standing in a green field, white smoke billowing away from the barrels.

Fire!: Arms Demo

Venture to this historic battleground to experience some of the thunderous sounds of battle as San Jacinto Battleground staff demonstrate how to fire a musket and rifle, weapons both the Mexican and Texian armies utilized on the fateful day that won Texan independence.

Port Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site Summer Camp 2024

Port Isabel Lighthouse Keeper's Summer Camp [8/15]

Experience the life of a modern-day Lighthouse Keeper and travel back in time nearly 500 years for stories of shipwrecks and rescues. Includes a treasure hunt!

Port Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site Summer Camp 2024

Port Isabel Lighthouse Keeper's Summer Camp [8/16]

Experience the life of a modern-day Lighthouse Keeper and travel back in time nearly 500 years for stories of shipwrecks and rescues. Includes a treasure hunt!

bacon cooking

Cooking in the Quarter

Come join us as we demonstrate cooking a traditional meal in the style of enslaved foodways using period ingredients and methods!

Quill Pen Writing

Try your hand at writing with a quill pen!

image of group of Native Americans on horses with an Anglo man standing in front of the horses

Red River War Series: Reconciliation

Broken promises and broken relationships! We all know about them. Join Dr. Alex Hunt at the Goodnight Ranch as he explores the aftermath within relationships following the Red River War. The 11:00 program is free to the public.