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Heritage Society Museum

Located at 125 E. Main, the Heritage Society Museum is open Wednesdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free and group tours are available on other days. Call 979-725-8203 or 979-725-8478 for more information.

Housed in the Old Hill Bank building, the Heritage Society Museum of Weimar focuses on exhibits tracing the city's history, beginning with the original land grant from the Spanish government to Henry Austin in 1831. Surveying tools and personal effects of Weimar's founder, D.W. Jackson, are displayed.

The Main Street area gives a fascinating glimpse of life into Weimar's early days. Strolling down "the street," visitors can view a doctor's office with a full-size skeleton on a stand beside an old-fashioned examining table. In view is an amputation kit and a wooden leg belonging to Peg-Leg Strunk, an early area rancher.

A dentist office, department store, bank, blacksmith forge, a facsimile of the old Mercury newspaper printing shop, and a barber shop and beauty salon make up the museum's Main Street.

The early country kitchen exhibit is complete with a Hoosier cabinet, the pride of any 1900s housewife. A poppy-seed grinder is clamped to the worktable, ready for making poppy-seed filled kolaches, a staple in German family meals.

The Military Room features uniforms and G.I. memorabilia from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf conflict. Among the most unusual items is a water-cooled machine gun from WWI and Nazi banners from WWII. There's even a Civil War cannonball that was unearthed east of town. The Military Room's exterior wall holds Weimar's Veteran Roll, which lists area residents who have served in the United States Armed Forces.

The pharmacy exhibit is most impressive. An inlaid majolica tile soda fountain from the old Farmer's Drug Store greets visitors to this section. One can easily imagine enjoying a long-ago Saturday afternoon with a cool fountain drink or scoop of ice cream. Pharmaceutical items, housed in original drug store cabinets and cases, include remedies and patent medicines such as Doctor Thatcher's Liver and Blood Syrup and Grandma's Household Remedies. Prohibition-era prescriptions for alcohol, written in 1924 for a man and his wife prompt comments about "medicinal uses" of spirits. 

At one time, the majority of area citizens made their living in agriculture. One of the early cotton-seed oil mills in Texas existed in Weimar (1876). In 1926, when the Texas Pickle Company opened, farmers began planting cucumbers to supply the brining vats. The factory operated for 30 years.

The newest addition to the Heritage Society Museum is the Weimar Volunteer Firefighters exhibit, which houses a vintage Seagrave pumper and hose truck, 1890 house cart, uniforms, and photographs.



The Museum Annex, located on Post Office St., houses the "Rural Americana" exhibit. Against a country scene back drop, visitors can view examples of typical farm implements known to have come from area farmers.

Grab Your Gear and Get Active
If you're in the mood for team sports, head over to Hill Memorial Park where there is plenty of room to play soccer, baseball, softball, and volleyball.