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Showing posts with label San Felipe Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Felipe Texas. Show all posts

2025-02-13 San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site Museum

 We left Goliad on Monday and headed to Stephen F. Austin State Park to meet up with a friend who was camp hosting there. There was a pretty good size group of friends. Unfortunately, the beautiful weather disappeared and we were treated to drizzly winter weather. It put a damper on activities since there is no rally room. Teri rented a shelter but even with heaters, it was darn cold since there are only screens on the openings. We did take advantage of a lull in the drizzle to visit the San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site Museum.


There is a nice museum which commemorates the location and shares the stories of early settlers in this region where in 1823, Stephen F. Austin established a headquarters for his colony in Mexican Texas.




I should mention that they had an amazing wall size interactive display which was a map of the early town where you could touch the picture of each building and get a whole writeup on it. I've never seen such a great feature that covered a whole wall.



I was the only one of our group that braved the frigid weather to get some pictures of the "village" display outside.






It is definitely worth a visit if you are anywhere near. If you are staying at the state park, you get a coupon for reduced admission.