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Sue Snyder Wood – Tomball Oral History Project

Tomball Oral History Project Spring Creek County Historical Association Lone Star College Harris County Library Episode #11    April 10, 2023 interview with Betty Sue Synder Wood by Kyle Stallones. Sue was first Tomball woman firefighter on the all volunteer force. Hear her stories about that and her father’s and uncle’s inventing/metal making skills. https://youtu.be/uZ1tjYcB1UA

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Museum Talk with Monte Parks – Akokisa Tribe

Museum Talk with Monte ParksFilmed Thursday, January 19, 2023 @ 6:30 pm at Tomball Museum Center Fellowship Hall 510 N. Pine, Tomball, TX 77375TOPIC: Akokisa, Native Americans of Harris County While working P4, he was the homestead coordinator at Jesse Jones Park and the unofficial precinct historian. He graduated from Sam Houston University with a

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A Planter, a Plow and a One-Horse Gin

This booklet is the culmination of a project undertaken by the Spring Creek County Historical Association in January, 1980.  Funded by the Texas Committee for the Humanities, this project was designed to foster an improved understanding of and appreciation for the agricultural heritage of Northern Harris and Southern Montgomery Counties, the territory formerly designated as

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