Cupid's Cards: Historic Valentines
Thursday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.Join us at the French Legation to discover the romance (and humor) of Valentines Day throughout the past before making your own!
Exhibit: Tom Lea’s Twelve Travelers Through the Pass of the North
Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Celebrate El Paso's rich history by viewing Tom Lea's "Twelve Travelers Through the Pass of the North" at the Magoffin Home Visitors Center in collaboration with the Tom Lea Institute.
Cupid's Cards: Historic Valentines
Friday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.Join us at the French Legation to discover the romance (and humor) of Valentines Day throughout the past before making your own!
Atomic Age After Dark: Viva Zapata! Movie Night
Friday 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.Join us for another movie night showing a 1950s classic that inspired George H.W. Bush & Bill and Hugh Liedtke to name their oil company Zapata Petroleum! The movie is a biographical movie about Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata but is filmed in English. Movie will be shown in the Visitors Center. Snacks and drinks are provided but guests are welcome to bring their own.
Cycling Saturdays
Saturday 7 a.m. - 9 a.m.The roads within the San Jacinto State Historic Site will open early for bicyclists. Travel our 7.5 miles of site roads and see the battleground where Texas was won at your own pace. No motorized vehicles will be allowed into the site during this time to promote safe bicycling.
Exhibit: Tom Lea’s Twelve Travelers Through the Pass of the North
Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Celebrate El Paso's rich history by viewing Tom Lea's "Twelve Travelers Through the Pass of the North" at the Magoffin Home Visitors Center in collaboration with the Tom Lea Institute.
Fanthorp Wedding and Stagecoach Ride
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.Living history event at the Fanthorp Inn in Anderson, TX
Spinning and Weaving
Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.Learn more about traditional spinning and weaving at a demonstration from the Bay Area Weavers and Spinners every second Saturday at the San Jacinto Museum.
Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter (Saturday)
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.Enslaved women and men, such as Mary, Jerry, Willis, Amy, and Charity, were an integral part of the full story of Barrington. Start your experience behind the Jones Home in the bustle of a busy plantation kitchen and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of a hearth cooked meal being prepared. Journey to the other side of the plantation and learn what foods Mary, Jerry, or Willis would prepare for themselves in the Quarter. Contact us at Barrington-Plantation@thc.texas.gov or 936-878-2214 x248 for more information.
The Bullet Revolution: Military Arms in Transition, 1852-1883
Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Explore a pivotal era of transformation in military history as firearms and ammunition evolved from smoothbore muskets to more efficient, deadly, and technologically advanced weaponry. This program offers an overview of the innovations, challenges, and impacts that reshaped tactics and warfare in the mid-19th century.