It could be like a map, or we could choose a format that would be more like a magazine. And it was the flow of settlers into and through our region that has made Texas the great state that it is today. To date, the guides are available in Colorado, Jackson and Washington Counties. By summer's end we expect to have guides for at least five more counties. We are sponsoring a series of Heritage Photo Days throughout the region to make copy negatives of photos more than 50 years old.
Local residents can bring their photos to be copied at no charge.
The copies are made while they wait and are then returned to them. The copy negative is then filed at an appropriate archive for safe keeping. This project will preserve photos that may otherwise become faded, or that might otherwise become lost. We are also supporting the efforts of six museums that are seeking to interpret the LaSalle Odyssey, using artifacts recovered from the Belle shipwreck in Matagorda Bay, and from the excavation of Fort St. Louis, now underway. Each of the six museums will tell a portion of the larger story.