2023

Hank Weirich – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

Kyle Stallones opens the Tomball Museum Center 2024 Oral History Project with an interview of Hank Weirich, a 5th generation Tomball resident and descendent of Christian Weirich who was born in Germany in 1824. Hank relates colorful stories of the Weirich, Bode, Winkle and Caulking families through the evolving Tomball years, detailing life in the

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Kip Coe – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

Kip Coe, of the Tomball Coe family group, is interviewed by Kyle Stallones for the Tomball Museum Center Oral History Project on June 8, 2023. Kip describes at length the early days of growing up in Tomball, his love of gardening and Tomball history as well as sugar cane harvesting, land development, saw mills, cattle

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Docent Field Trip – Texas Wendish Heritage Museum

“Docents love history and learning. What a wonderful experience to  upgrade our knowledge of the Wendish people on our first docent road trip. We gained new facts and stories to add to our tours about our own Wendish Cabin. “ The first picture is a painted church. The second is native dress. The third is

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Old Cedar Building Material Recovery

The Tomball Museum Center maintenance group had plenty to crow about recently. David Roche’s property, off FM2978 just into Montgomery County, had a collapsed structure laying dormant for several years. This 60+ year old building was full of beautiful, old, real cedar siding that will live to see another day at the Tomball Museum where

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