Texas history is unique, colorful, and vast. Realizing the need to preserve Texan's shared history and educate them about their past, the Texas Historical Foundation was incorporated in 1954 as a 501 (c) (3) organization to take on this mission. Using public donations, THF invests in this work by providing funds to nonprofits that are saving the buildings, artifacts, documents and traditions of the Lone Star past.
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By mid 1836, Mark Epperson had built a ferry at the crossing of Trammel’s Trace and Sulphur Fork in present-day Bowie County. The treadwheel boat transported animals, cargo, and mail, and a small settlement built up around the crossing—before roads and railroads ushered in a new era of transportation.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when federal troops arrived in Texas and declared slaves free. General Order No. 3 by Union Army General Gordon Granger showed that the U. S. Army was in the state and committed to emancipation—more than two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Born in a small Texas town, James Earl Rudder was an educator before he was called to active duty and participated in the D-Day Invasion of Worl War II.
THF programs are designed to further its mission and provide much needed services for our Texas historical preservations and their programs. Find out more.
The variety of THF's endowments insure the treasures of rural areas, to dance halls, and Texas legal papers will be preserved for future Texans!
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