Established by George Barnard as a trading post in 1849, Glen Rose is located at a picturesque spot on the Paluxy River where it flows…
It’s quite an amazing experience to run your fingers over an area of dirt, sift through pebbles and soil, feel a shaped piece of stone…
Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum is one of Central Texas’ preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Located in Waco…
Keith Glasscock, a Permian Basin oilfield worker, often spent his spare time searching the windswept…
As its name would imply, the Museum of the Big Bend provides an excellent introduction…
Tucked away deep in the landscape just beyond the western edge of Mineral Wells is…
Vast, remote, and wild, beautiful Big Bend National Park attracts over 500,000 visitors (mostly Texans)…
Many people are surprised to learn that in various prehistoric eras much of Texas was…
Many of those traveling on Interstate 20 about an hour (or 70 miles) west of…
In our youth, most of us cherished dinosaurs, or a specific character from a book,…
There’s no better way to peer into the distant past than to walk into a…
If you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout, the odds of this sparking your…
Many people spend a small fortune to spend an evening with a musical rockstar; in…
As the official repository for the records of the government, the Texas State Archives are…
In the late 1800s, cattlemen and settlers entered Lubbock County along trails that followed the…
Each October, dozens of historic sites, museums, universities, county historical commissions, and archeological facilities across…
