Annual Shared Meeting of Genealogical/Historical Societies Set Aug 27, 7pm at Heritage Park Winnifred Building
The Hopkins County Heritage Park’s new Winnifred Building will host the 2020 joint meeting of the Hopkins County Historical Society and the Hopkins County Genealogical Society, planned on Thursday August 27 at 7pm. The meeting room allows space for social distancing between guests in the new, spacious facility. Members of the Societies are encouraged to attend. Historical Society President Rick Wilson and Society members will...
Hopkins County's Heritage Park Hosts 2020 Events by the HC Historical Society
Although the landscape still looks like Winter, plans are afoot for an exciting Spring at Hopkins County Historical Park in Sulphur Springs. Utilizing the few dry days during January, Historical Society volunteers have worked to keep up with the routine mowing, trimming and cleaning of the grounds. “And we are in process of putting a new porch on the Smith-Gregg House”, stated Rick Wilson. “That’s been needed...
The Amazing Dutch Oven Cookoff 2019 at Heritage Park; John Chester Would Have Been Proud!
Johnny “Buffalo” Chester took great pains and great pride in practicing the pioneer craft of outdoor cooking in iron utensils over an open fire or coals. No matter if it was a skillet, a stew pot or a covered ‘dutch oven’, he could cook anything, and had not only mastered the skill in his adult life but demonstrated it everywhere he could get a gathering. Following his passing, his friend Rick Wilson decided to...
Annual Indian Summer Days Event To Take Place Oct. 5 At Heritage Park
Indian Summer Days 2016 Hopkins County Historical Society invites the community to take a step back in time Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., during the annual Indian Summer Days event inside Heritage Park, located at 416 North Jackson St. The Park will be open for exhibits and demonstrations of Caddo Indian artifacts, pottery making, hide tanning, and soap-making and candle-making. Spinning, weaving and quilting, butter...
Heritage Park Will Host Reilly Springs Jamboree for Two Indoor Shows on June 15
Jamboree Co-producers Roger Reed and Enola Gay The historic Reilly Springs Jamboree is coming to town! Heritage Park’s beautiful new Winniford House will be the setting for two lively country and gospel talent performances on the evening of Saturday June 15, 2019. Tickets are $10 per person in advance or at the door, with the first show at 6 pm and repeated at 8 pm to feature Roger Reed, the Jamboree band and guest performers....
Heritage Park and Museum Opens ‘Winiford Place’, a New Multi-Purpose Building
On April 16, 2019 at noon, along with a ribbon cutting ceremony by the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce, Winiford Place was presented a flag and a plaque from Jennie Ash, a staffer of Texas State Representative Dan Flynn’s office. According to the plaque, the Texas flag had “flown over the Capitol of the Sovereign State of Texas”, the perfect note for a park which celebrates our local history upon land near the...
