Fort Belknap

EP. 156 (Live From Young County) Fort Belknap with Jim Hammond

Why would an Army fort on the Texas frontier be built without a wall? In episode 156 of Wise About Texas, recorded live at the Young County Museum of History and Culture in Graham, Texas, host Ken Wise talks with Jim Hammond, director of Fort Belknap near Newcastle, about the 1851 post that became a…

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EP. 155: (Live from Young County) Starting a History Museum with Shannon Potts & Tony Widner

In episode 155 of Wise About Texas, Ken Wise sits down with curator and board president Tony Widner and founder Shannon Potts at the Young County Museum of History and Culture’s first-anniversary celebration. Neither had run a museum before, yet they turned a 1937 Piggly Wiggly into a home for Young County history, a history…

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