San Jacinto Ceremony
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Leon Strack -Tomball Museum Oral History Project
https://youtu.be/9lLnLFJMerQ In this 3rd video of our 2024 oral history series Kyle Stallones interviews Leon Strack, a long time descendant of the Strack family. Leon traces his family roots back to 1873 and includes rememberances of the Hildebrandt, Brautigam, Senger and Wied families going back four generations. Leon also discusses family life in the early
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Marvin & Gladys Osgood -Tomball Museum Oral History Project
https://youtu.be/bOoETYqwLn8 Kyle Stallones from the Tomball Museum Center interviews Marvin and Gladys (nee Metzler) Osgood on life in Tomball during the “dairy” years from around 1946 to 1976. Marvin recalls the days in Cypress growing up and helping his family in the twice-a-day, seven-days-a-week job of operating a dairy farm (not to mention a 1,000+
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Stephen Hohl – Tomball Museum Oral History Project
https://youtu.be/bi6BwCtF4aE Kyle Stallones at the Tomball Museum Center interviews Stephen Hohl on March 8, 2024. Stephen’s father and grandfather owned and operated Hohl Motors from 1920 to 1968. Relive with Stephen his father’s exploits during WWII, the invasion of Normandy as a young Lt. JG commanding a landing craft, tales of the Hohl and Brown
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Mitch Ford – Tomball Museum Oral History Project
Kyle Stallones interviews Mitch Ford, a longtime resident of Tomball since 1963. Mitch’s immediate family, Millard Ford Jr. and Millard Ford Sr. founded and operated Ford’s Chevy Service for many years in downtown Tomball and then on old FM149 before retiring in 1973. Kyle explores life in Tomball during those years, including discussions about the
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Nadine Martens Reed – Tomball Museum Oral History Project
Kyle Stallones interviews Nadine Martens Reed whose father, Leonard, operated one of the largest poultry and egg farms in the Tomball area on a 354 acre ranch. For over 50 years Leonard’s country eggs were sold to many grocery stores, convenience stores and restaurants around Tomball as well as the Houston area. Nadine relives the
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Docents trip to Texas Cotton Museum
We have had our second docent road trip. This one was to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in Burton, TX. We learned a lot about the processing of cotton and enjoyed a meal together.
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Holiday Undecorating at the Museum
Decorating is always fun. Undecorating, usually, not so much. The team of over 40 volunteers including 10 Key Club Members from Tomball Memorial HS not only completed the undecorating process, but also cleaned all 10 of our antique buildings. We worked, ate together, laughed and completed everything in 7 hours. Amazing. Please come join us as
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End of School Program
End of School Program Several years ago, our granddaughter Katie invited us to come to Austin for her graduation from kindergarten. She attended a parochial school, and the exercise was held in the church sanctuary. The theme was “Going to the Circus.” The large class was divided into groups of four or five, and each
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Confederate Powder Mill
Click the Button below for Excerpt from Cobb’s Creek in the Early Days of the Old Powder Mill By John W. Eckfeldt – Available on Smithsonian Internet Archive Early Days of the old Power Mill
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