At its recent meeting in San Angelo, the Texas Historical Foundation (THF) approved three new directors whose collective experience in business, law, and preservation will help advance the Foundation’s mission to preserve Texas history: Harold Prasatik of Fair Oaks Ranch, Cynthia Toles of Houston, and Jon Venverloh of Highland Park.

This year's Duda Forum will focus on historic courthouses in Texas, addressing their rehabilitation challenges and highlighting the important role they play in communities across the state.

The 3rd annual Duda Forum will focus on historic courthouses in Texas, addressing their rehabilitation challenges and highlighting the important role they play in communities across the state.

Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) was awarded funds for their ambitious restoration and digitization of their KPRC-Houston collection, a collection that includes the sole extant footage of many significant historical events as well as the beloved and long running Eyes of Texas series.

Funds will support the preservation of the Armsted Taylor House (Taylor Inn), located on Chestnut Street near the historic “Jockey Lot.” The project will address water drainage issues, stabilize the foundation, and repair interior damage.

Grant funds went towards the Historic Marker Program to introduce the concept, identify buildings, map locations, invite community excitement and participation; while drawing attention to historic buildings and the role they have played in the story of Palacios over time.

This year for Halloween, we are revisiting one of our past favorites: The Jefferson Historical Society Museum's “Sitting Up with the Dead: A Victorian Mourning Exhibit." The exhibit, which we visited in 2024, explored 19th-century mourning customs, including a few eerie photographic effects and practices.

More than 10,000 years ago, prehistoric peoples in Texas crafted stone spear points to hunt mammoths, bison, and other animals. These finely made tools — known today as projectile points or, colloquially, as “arrowheads” — are among the oldest evidence of human life in North America. The Texas Fluted Point Survey is documenting and mapping these artifacts in Texas to expand our understanding of our state's earliest inhabitants.

In 2024, the inaugural year of the Duda Preservation Awards, the Friends of the Wheelock School House won the top prize for their efforts to restore the 1908 Wheelock School House.