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Texas Heritage Society Reorganization Meeting September 14, 2017, 6:30 pm The Woodlands Community Center 2235 Lake Robbins Dr. The Woodlands, TX 77380 Phone: (281) 363-9410 Next to the library
About five
years ago, the
Society received a
donation of
$20,000 from a
wealthy man in
Fort Worth. We
contacted his
office and learned
that he was
impressed with our
organization
because we were
dedicated to
preserving our
history. He was
from Louisiana and
liked to visit and
preserve Civil War
battle sites
across the South.
Right now we are faced with an organized attack that includes the media that are planning to remove all Confederate statues, names of schools, streets, etc. across the South. But it doesn't stop there. Statues and the names of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Sam Houston are included in the attack, because they owned slaves. Andrew Jackson and Columbus are under attack because they mistreated Indians. But the hundreds of cruel boats from New England and NYC and Boston merchants that bought the slaves and brought them to America with many dying on the way are not mentioned. We are inviting a couple of local
organizations
to join us for
the next
meeting in
hopes of
increasing our
numbers.
Hewitt Clarke Lake Creek Settlement Ceremony  The Texas Historical
Commission marker for the Lake Creek
Settlement was dedicated Saturday, February
25, 2017, 186 years after the county’s first
Anglo-American settlement was established...
to continue reading click here. See more photos click here. See Ceremony Program click here. Article by Pat Spackey Page 1 Article by Pat Spackey Page 2  Our member, local historian and author, Frank Johnson has released his new book titled: “Rebuke and Forever Silence.” Click here to see news release. It is available direct from the publisher through his website:
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Lake Creek Settlement The Texas Heritage
Society will assist in the dedication
ceremony of the official Texas
Historical Commission marker for
the Lake Creek Settlement.
The Lake Creek Settlement was a settlement
in Austin's Second Colony which had been
forgotten to Texas historians until our own
Texas Heritage Society President, Kameron
Searle, helped rediscover the forgotten
settlement. Austin received his second land
grant from the State of Coahuila y
Tejas in 1825 and began settling
colonists between the west fork of the San
Jacinto River and the stream known as Lake
Creek in 1831, about five years before the
Texas Revolution. By 1833, the area had
become known as the Lake Creek Settlement.
Colonists and settlers from the Lake Creek
Settlement fought in the Texas Revolution in
the Battle of Concepcion, the Grass Fight,
the Siege of Bexar, and the Battle of
San Jacinto. One of the Lake Creek
Settlement settlers, John Marshall Wade,
fought in the Battle of San Jacinto and
manned one of the famous Twin Sisters
cannons during the battle. Larry Foerster
with the Montgomery Historical Commission
informs us that the dedication ceremony is
tentatively set for Saturday,
February 25, 2017 at 10am at the
Nat Hart Davis Museum in Montgomery,
Texas near the intersection of Texas
105 and Liberty Street (FM 149).
The Texas Heritage Society paid $500 toward
the costs to casting the marker. Come out
and help us "Discover,
Understand and Preserve"
this newly discovered piece of Texas
history.
 Galveston Trip Photos  (click here to see all photos) Then click on a photo to see enlargement and scroll. Lake Creek Settlement
After an almost two year
application process, the official Texas
Historical Commission marker that the
Texas Heritage Society co-sponsored with
the Montgomery Historical Society has
arrived at the City of Montgomery City
Hall. Our own President, Kameron
Searle, did the historical research
regarding the Lake Creek Settlement for
more than a decade before initiating the
application process. Kameron worked
closely with Montgomery County Historical
Commission and the Montgomery Historical
Society throughout the application process
for the Texas Historical Commission
marker. The Lake Creek Settlement was a
settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Second
Colony that had been forgotten to Texas
historians by the 1920's.
Quarterly Meeting and Christmas Party and Galveston Trip We combined our Christmas Party this you with our trip to Galveston.  December 3. Saturday 10 am--Pier 21 Theater, 2100 Haborside Drive, movie: Galveston, Gateway to the Gulf. Visit Sea Museum next door 11:30--Fisherman's Wharf, pier 21. Author Ed Cotham will speak on his book The Battle of Galveston. 1:00 pm--Bryan Museum, 1315 21 St, A new museum about the American South west. 2:30--Dickens on the Strand, six stages, parades, bands, bagpipes, strolling & museums. Dress up for the Dickens on the Strand festival if possible. Spend the rest of the day. Later Saturday-- Christmas Party and Quarterly meeting at the hotel December 4, Sunday Return to the DICKENS ON THE STRAND festival. ------------------------------------------------------
La Copa Hotel , 8710 Seawall Blvd,
Galveston, 409 740 9100. Rooms are
$113 includes taxes. Ask for Kimberly.
Tell her THS. This is for December 3.Photo from the last two Quarterly Meetings (Click Here) Quarterly Meeting Thursday,
September 8, 2016
6:30 PM  How Bernardo de Galvez helped
win the American Revolution
by Dr. Caroline
Castillo Crimm is a Professor of History
at Sam Houston State University
 "Everyone has heard of Galveston, but did you know that the man for whom it was named helped George Washington win the American Revolution? Bernardo de Galvez spent 2 years (1777-1779) outwitting the British by sending supplies up the Mississippi in secret to General Washington, then spent the next three years (1779-1781) beating the British soundly on the Mississippi and in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to Washington's victory at Yorktown. It is a fascinating and little known story of a Spanish Patriot who helped create the United States."
Day Trip June 11, 2016  8:45
am
Meet at Pizza Shack,
115 W Montgomery St (FM 1097),
Willis, TX 77378 9:00
am
Old Waverly, Ghost town lost when
the railroad
past through New Waverly. Waverly
like many
other southern towns was named
after the book
(Waverley)by Sir Walter Scott.
Meet at County
Line Store on Hwy 150 two mi.
east of FM 1097,
(before McDonald Ln.) 9:45
am
Old Jail Museum, follow Byrd Ave.
then north
(1000 ft) on Commercial Ave
Coldspring, TX 10:30 am The
West River Plantation (Robinson family),
400 historic artifacts, 500 Texas
Hwy 156
entering Point Blank, TX 12:30 pm 1836
Steak House, 2641 11th St, Huntsville 2:00
pm
Prison Museum, 491 State Hwy 75
N, Huntsville 3:00
pm
Hearts Veterans Museum next door 4:00
pm
Sam Houston Museum, 1836 Sam
Houston Ave,
Huntsville, TX 77340 6:00
pm
Casa Medina Restaurant, dance
Flamenco,
Tomas from Spain, 28777
I45, Shenandoah Quarterly Meeting Thursday, June 9, 2016 6:30 PM Larry Spasic, President of the
San Jacinto Museum, will speak about the
construction of the San Jacinto Monument
for the Texas Centennial celebration in
1936.
 Woodlands Community Center Room 109 2235 Lake Robbins Drive The Woodlands, Texas 77380 (281-363-9410)
Quarterly Meeting March 10, 2016, Thursday 6:30 PM Planning meeting The future of the Texas Heritage Society, meeting locations, formats, projects, newsletters, journals, Facebook page, etc. Rico's Grill 6777 Woodlands Pkwy #100 The Woodlands, TX 77382 Our President Kameron Searle had an article appear in a dozen Texas newspapers For
Want of a Texas Education 
Quarterly Meeting & Christmas Party And Election of Officers Thursday, December 10 , 2015  Society Annual
Christmas Photo
Courtesy of
Pat Spackey Texas
Heritage Society Officers 2016-2017 President
— Kameron K. Searle, J. D. @Speaker: Jay Jones
Subject: Was the Civil War Really About Slavery?  Texas
Heritage
Society, 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status In a letter dated August 9, 2011, the Texas Heritage Society, Inc. was advised that it was exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Texas Heritage Society, Inc. are tax deductible under section 170 of the Code. The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Code. Click here to see IRS Letter. Our hats are
off to our members
of the committee
that completed all
the paperwork and
forms for the IRS
that made the
recognition of the
Texas Heritage
Society, Inc.'s tax
exempt status
possible. Members of
the committee were
Barbara Hamilton,
Melinda Cagle, and
Carole Lynn O'Neal.
Thank you all for
your hours of hard
work. OUR PURPOSE
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