HISTORY OF THE GRIFFIN HOUSE PART I The house was originally built on a tract of land which included all of the John Michel (Mitchell) and Wm. Usener Surveys, each of which comprised 320 acres of land lying on the south side of Willow Creek in Harris County and directly south of the City of […]
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H. Chapin Union Factory tongue and groove plane.
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We had the opportunity to catch up with Clark Johnson of BSA Troop 113 about his progress repairing and restoring the WWII Memorials at the Tomball Museum Center. Clark is doing an AMAZING job, working every weekend and is ahead of schedule! Clark will be joined by some of the other members of BSA Troop
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Below is a drone video by Robert Watts of the Spring Creek County Historical Association. The video was taken August 19, 2018 above the grounds of the Tomball Museum Center located at 510 N. Pine, Tomball, Texas.
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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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Here is a brief video history of the Theiss Family by Houston History Magazine. The entire article, “German Settlers of NW Harris County”, was posted in July of 2016. The article is a great read and includes some voice recordings of an interview between Edwin “Butch” Theiss and author Stephanie Gomez. The video below is
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Thank you to Patty McGrath Jones for restoring the original lettering to the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church sign! The sign reads: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Neudorf Dreinigkeits Congregation On Little Cypress Creek Established May 20, 1876 Welcome Neudorf, Texas
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