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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Austin’s Treaty Oak is a tree, but it’s also a story. It’s the kind of tale that’s recounted in children’s plays, like Austin’s version of the first Thanksgiving.
The latest issue of the Texas Historical Foundation’s award-winning Texas HERITAGE magazine featured stories from the state’s borderlands, including articles about Petra Vela Kenedy and another on the return of an ancestral burial place in Presidio to members of the Lipan ApacheTribe. For those interested in the Texas borderlands, here’s another resource to explore.
While La Villita is often described as San Antonio’s first neighborhood, it is more appropriately described as San Antonio’s first suburb.
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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