Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives
La Grange, Texas
Celebrating Fayette County's History
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We appreciate your interest in the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives! Keep reading to learn about upcoming events, as well as recent happenings, in the Museum and Archives.
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Upcoming Events
How the War Between the States Changed Texas
Tuesday, June 11th, 6:30 p.m., Library Meeting Room
After having to cancel last month due to severe storms, Merle R. Hudgins will present an overview of her two-volume set of books on Texas before, during and after the Civil War.
Genealogy Workshop Live-Streamed from Waco and Elsewhere
Friday, October 18th, 10 a.m. - 8:30.p.m. upstairs in the Museum and Archives
This will be the fourth year we have joined this event planned by the Waco Public Library. Topics will include genealogy for beginners, dating photographs, using Familysearch.org, and five other topics of interest to family researchers.
Current Exhibits
The Photography of Louis Melcher
More than 150 of Melcher's photographs of Fayette and Wharton Counties from the 1890s through 1920 show his talent for capturing everyday life in crisp images that are both beautiful and instructive.
When White Dresses Were in Vogue
Our latest exhibit features some of our favorite women's clothing from the Museum's textile collection, along with early 1900s photographs of local women who made that style memorable.
Crayon Portraits
See examples from our large collection of portraits enhanced with conte crayons and charcoal.
Upcoming Exhibit
The Texas Liberator Project: Witness to the Holocaust
From September 10th through October 22nd, FHMA will be hosting a traveling exhibit designed by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. Among other topics, the panels describe events leading up to World War II, American attitudes during the war, Nazism and antisemitism, concentration camps and ghettos, and the difficulty many Texas liberators had in sharing wartime experiences. This photo shows only a small portion of the panels when they were on display in the State Capitol Annex.
There will be a special program related to the exhibit on Saturday morning, September 21st.
In the FHMA Gift Shop
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Charles Hebert is shown here in the Archives reading from and signing copies of his new book, The Kreisches of Fayette County. Signed copies are now available on the shelves of our Gift Shop.
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On Loan from the Arnim Museum
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The E. A. Arnim Museum and Archives in Flatonia has graciously loaned us this beautiful white dress and period undergarments once worn by Fairy Faires as an addition to our latest exhibit, When White Dresses Were in Vogue. The manufacturer's label on the black feathered hat shown under plexiglass states it was sold from Krengel's Millinery Shop in La Grange.
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Among other recent gifts we have received:
- 1927 La Grange High School class ring
- an up-to-date bound list of burials in the Sts. Cyril & Methodius Cemetery at Dubina.
- Two Louis Melcher photographs
- Letzerich and Rummel family photographs
- Willie Rummel's autograph album with pages signed between 1879 and 1882
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Facebook
Like our page at www.facebook.com/FPLMA to see our "In the Archives" posts every Tuesday and our "Flashback Friday" posts every Friday.
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