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Origin of Central Texas Area Museum, Inc.

The Central Texas Area Museum located in Salado, Texas on Interstate Highway 35, was established by a group of interested citizens of the Central Texas area, received its area charter from the State of Texas on November 19, 1958 and was opened on August 1, 1959. The Museum is housed at present in a beautiful old rock building more than 100 years old just a few hundred yards from the picturesque clear spring-fed Salado creek.

The Museum, located in one of Texas' most interesting small villages with an early frontier history, was founded in order to preserve the historical items of our early frontier days. It also was established for the purpose of housing a library which is to contain books and papers connected with the settlement of Texas and of the Central Texas area.

Objectives, Services and Achievements

The Purpose of the Central Texas Area Museum is to tell the history and development of Central Texas, to provide a safe and accessible place to preserve and exhibit these items which tell its history.

The officers and directors of the Museum provide an exhibit room and auditorium in which exhibits may be displayed and where historical paintings and writings may be shown.

Our annual program includes Genealogical Workshops, a fine arts exhibit, Readers and Writers Roundtable, and in addition to that provides a Gathering for the Scottish Clans of Texas. This latter event is a three day affair at which time all of the Scottish Clan Societies of the US are invited for a Scottish celebration.

In addition to the above programs, services rendered by the Museum are:

  1. A permanent library for research and pioneer history as well as genealogical and Scottish history and tradition.
  2. Student research, tours and historical contests.
  3. Genealogical Workshop.
  4. A meeting place for Texas historical and similar groups.
  5. Statewide cooperation with historical, genealogical and museum conventions.
  6. An unparalleled collection of historical artifacts that illuminate the story of early Central Texas and the people who settled in the area.

Among other achievements, the Central Texas Area Museum won first place at the San Antonio conservation awards contest in 1961, and it founded the annual gathering of the Scottish clans of Texas in 1962. This gathering draws more than one thousand people from all over Texas, and from all surrounding states as well.

For more information please call the Central Texas Area Museum at (254) 947-5232

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