Join Preservation Lampasas in preserving and protecting the historic identity of Lampasas.

 

Click here to read more about the National Registered Lampasas Colored School and to donate on-line to this great project! 

Preservation Lampasas (A 501(c)3 membership organization) is currently restoring the Historic Nationally Registered Lampasas Colored School. We desperately need your help to complete this project. Large donations are certainly appreciated, but remember five hundred $100 dollar donations make $50,000! Please click the above graphic to read more and donate on-line to his worthy restoration project! 

 

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That which he selfishly keeps, he loses.
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Look at the all the Historical Markers in Lampasas County (www.PreservationLampasas.Org)


Click and read more about the �Company refurbishing former Santa Fe depot� in Lampasas, Texas in a Lampasas Dispatch Newspaper article dated January 1, 2008. Thanks to Richard Hardin and Hardin Interests Inc. the Lampasas Santa Fe Depot is coming back to it�s 1904 glory! www.PreservationLampasas.Org


Look at our sister organization, Lampasas Association for the Arts!

Click either of the large pictures to the right and read more about the restoration of the Lampasas Colored School. You can donate to this grand cause on-line on this website!
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(CLICK TO HELP) Raising funds and interest in the restoration of the Lampasas Colored School. Please help and donate on-line!

(CLICK TO HELP!) Working hard at raising funds for Preservation Lampasas, Inc.
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A Adobe Reader map of the City of Lampasas "National Registered Historic District".


Act now and get your own bench placed permanently in a Lampasas City Park (www.PreservationLampasas.Org).


Click here to read about the restoration of the Lampasas Colored School... www.PreservationLampasas.Org.

Click either of the large pictures to the left and read more about the restoration of the Lampasas Colored School. You can donate to this grand cause on-line on this website!
Please Help! 

 

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Every Texas Historical Marker in Lampasas County Texas is listed on the Preservation Lampasas Website (www.PreservationLampasas.Org). These Texas Historical Markers include the photograph of the marker, the text on the marker and in most instances references to more reading material related to the marker subject as well as a historical picture of the marker subject.

These seventy-six (76) Texas Historical Markers cover many subjects, including the Gunfights and Feuds section, the "Horrell-Higgins Feud" itself; the continuation of the feud is titled "Battle Branch", and the wild, wild west "Gunfight at the Lampasas Saloon".

Also found on the Preservation Lampasas website are Texas Historical Markers listed in the Clubs section include the "Keystone Square Museum", the "Lampasas Volunteer Fire Department", "First State Meeting of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas", "Texas Bankers Association", the "Pierian Club" and the "First Pleasant Vally Farmers' Alliance No. 1".

In the Parks, Springs and Floods section you will also find Texas Historical Markers about "Hancock Springs", two historical markers about "Hanna Springs", "Hughes Springs" and "The 1957 Flood" which devastated the town of Lampasas, Texas.

In the Lampasas Homes section with Texas Historic Markers you will find the "Matt and Rebecca Smith House", "J. A. Adkins House", "Malone - Manuel House", "C.C. Abney House", "Old Cook Home, 1861", "Shade Denson House", "Hart House", "W. R. Hughes Home", "Moses Hughes Home, 1856", "Huling Cottage", "W. N. Huling Home, 1877", "Old Huling Mansion", "A. J. Northington House", "John Patterson House", "Philip Smith House", "Lee Straley House" and the "Summerville Home".

Texas Historical Markers listed in the Buildings and Businesses category in Lampasas County are "Hostess House", "Site of Abney Plunge", "Site of Park Hotel", "Chadwick's Mill", "Keystone Hotel", "Little Hotel", "Site of Old Opera House", "Phillips and Trosper Buildings" and "Townsen's Mill".

Lampasas Cemeteries with Texas Historical Markers include "Cook Cemetery", "Oak Hill Cemetery", "Senterfitt Cemetery" and the "Long Cove Cemetery".

Persons Born and Buried in Lampasas County Texas with Texas Historical Markers are "Walter P. Acker", "James Jackson Beeman", "James S. Gillett", "Garrison Greenwood", "Thomas Pratt", "Richard S. Stokes" and the "Birthplace of Stanley Walker".

Churches with Texas Historical Markers in Lampasas County include "School Creek Baptist Church", "Central Christian Church of Lampasas", "Clear Creek Baptist Church", "First Baptist Church of Lampasas", "First United Methodist Church of Lampasas", "Saint Mary's Catholic Church", "Long Cove Baptist Church", "Saint Mary's Episcopal Church" and the "United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville".

Texas Historical Markers about Schools in Lampasas County include "Atherton School", "Centenary College and St. Dominic's Villa", "First Public School in Lampasas" and the "Moline School Site".

Lampasas County Communities with Texas Historical Markers include "Nix", "McAnelly Settlement" and the "Site of Old Town of Senterfitt".

Military related Texas Historical Markers in Lampasas include "Operation Long Horn", "Lampasas County, C.S.A.", "Phantom Hill Road" and the "C.S.A. Salt Works".

Texas Historical Markers in Lampasas County related to Railroads include "Santa Fe Depot, 1904", "Scholten Railroad", "Phantom Hill Road" and the "Site of Lometa Reservoir".

Texas Historical Markers about Lampasas County itself include "Lampasas County", "Lampasas County Courthouse" and the Lampasas "County Jail".

We hope you love reading about history as much as we do. Join us in preserving and protecting the historic identity of Lampasas, be a volunteer with Preservation Lampasas! 

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Preservation Lampasas
P.O. Box 1632
Lampasas, TX. 76550
512.556.5266
A 501(c)3 membership organization.