Freestone County Historical Museum

04/24/2026

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!
Please call (903) 389-3738 if you can help!
We have group tours and need at least 2 volunteers in each building.

Time on all three days is from 8:30 - 11:30 am

Fairfield Elem. 1st grade (5 classes total)

Monday, May 11, 2026 two classes, total students = 43

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 three classes, total students = 57



Teague Elem. 2nd grade

Friday, May 15, 2026 - (about 85 students)

01/21/2026

Due to predicted weekend weather the museum will be closed Saturday and may close early on Friday.

01/01/2026

The board and our curator, Patty Pratt, wish you a happy and healthy 2026!

12/19/2025

The Museum Board and our curator, Patty Pratt, would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

We will be closed Wednesday the 24th.
We will be open Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th.

12/17/2025

Please join us in praying for Spain Trask and his family in the loss of his dear wife and our special friend, Bettye Trask.
Bettye volunteered at the museum as long as she could and was always willing to lend a helping hand.
Link to her memorial:

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12/17/2025

Thank you Roger, the new flag looks great!!

12/10/2025

Please join Freestone County Historical Museum in lifting up in prayer our long time board member, Leslie Tate and his family in the loss of their daughter, Dana Maggard

Her obituary can be viewed on this link:

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11/19/2025

Today there was a special reunion of 3 siblings of Donald Smith, all great grand nieces of Lonnie Littlejohn, designer and builder of our museum’s Littlejohn house from Shanks.
Sherry Matthews, Susan Hodges and Nancy Norman, who all met at the Methodist Church in Wortham.

At a recent FCHC meeting, a program was presented by Mary Jane McReynolds on the Methodist Church in Wortham, It was discovered that a mural has hung on their church wall painted in 1951 by prodigy, Donald Smith, who painted this mural at age 16.
FCHM Curator Patricia Pratt and board president, Linda Mullen put 2 + 2 together and recognized the name as being the sibling that had painted portraits which also hung in the Littlejohn house.

It was a great surprise when the family members were contacted and learned about a newly discovered artwork by their deceased brother Donald were located in Freestone County. Jacquelin Collins arranged this special meeting.
Here is the newspaper article about it.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111299/

11/14/2025

The Fairfield History Club collected food items at our monthly November 2025 meeting! Thank you to all who participated!

11/14/2025

We love to participate in our community! Thank you to Patty Pratt for the scarecrow on the square! We received 3rd prize in the contest!

11/12/2025

We are collecting can goods for the River of Life Community Food Bank to help local families in need!!!!Yall come help if you can !!!!