A rainy day didn’t stop the fun at the Tomball Museum Center. We learned in the one room school house, wrote with feather pins, made whirlygigs, paper hats, and tie-dyed a handkerchief. We played quiots and pickup sticks. It was fun pretending to be in the 1800’s.
Tomball Museum has again been permitted to grow cotton. Our cotton patch is an added bonus to the museum’s mission to teach about the history of our area. Come visit us to watch our cotton grow, see our animal driven cotton gin, and discover how people lived in the late 1800’s.
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This past Saturday, May 10th, the Tomball Garden Club and Tomball Museum Center teamed up for a rose dedication and plaque installment of the Theis roses in front of the corresponding historical house. The event saw many members of the garden club and museum in attendance. Representing the Theis/Theiss family included Butch Theis
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Kyle Stallones interviews Tomball Mayor Lori Klein-Quinn on May 26, 2023. Mayor Klein-Quinn recalls her life growing up in Tomball and her service to the community since high school. She discusses the sense of community for Tomball as a “city of sidewalks” where, in the early days, you were related to half the population and
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Tomball Oral History Project Spring Creek County Historical Association Lone Star College Harris County Library Episode #18 Kyle Stallones of the Tomball Museum Center interviews Arlie Beckendorf, one of the August Beckendorf sons (Elmer, Marvin, Harvey and Arlie) who sucessfully ran a dairy farm for many years in the Addicks and Rosehill communities. See how
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Tomball Oral History Project Spring Creek County Historical Association Lone Star College Harris County Library Episode #17 Kyle Stallones interviews Kirk Beckendorf, Arlie’s son, on May 23, 2023, tracing his roots growing up in Rosehill, Texas along with family reunions on the Beckendorf dairy farms of west Harris county. Kirk relives the childhood memories, including
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Tomball Oral History Project Spring Creek County Historical Association Lone Star College Harris County Library Episode #16 Kyle Stallones interviews Mrs. Elmer Beckendorf and her son, Charles. Both discuss the life of Elmer Beckendorf and his service to the Tomball community. Charles explains the intricacies of the dairy industry in the 1940s to its demise
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Kyle Stallones interviews JoAnn Buvinghausen Ehrhardt on May 4, 2023. JoAnn recalls her life growing up in Tomball, father Joseph Buvinghausen’s country store and other great stories of Tomball past. https://youtu.be/hy24J7plcz8
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Kyle Stallones interviews Millie Theis Martin on May 2, 2023 at the Tomball Museum Center. Millie recalls the ancestoral history of the Theis (and Theiss) families, other German settlers to Tomball in the 1800s, the move and restoration of the Theiss House to the museum complex and early life in Tomball as a child. https://youtu.be/Xw4hBRow9qU
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