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Museum Hours 10 - 12 a.m. & 1 - 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Phone 940-322-7628 Saturday: 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tours available by appointment
Wichita County Archives which is located in the Museum will be open 10 -12 a.m. & 1- 4 p.m. Tuesday & Wednesday
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The Museum of North Texas History And Wichita County Archives 720 Indiana - Wichita Falls, Texas |
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Heritage Hall featuring the incredible collection of cowboy hats collected by Nat Fleming.
Nat Fleming was in business in Wichita Falls, Texas selling boots and hats to cowboys in North Texas for 54 years. And when you bought a new hat, you could leave the old one and it was hung on the wall along with all the others… some famous, some not so famous. Now after closing The Cow Lot Western Wear store, this wonderful collection is preserved at the Museum of North Texas History.
In addition to the cowboy hat collection, the Museum is displaying the teller window and mail drop from the Monroe Street Station Post Office, several reproduction store fronts, a horse-drawn buggy, Joe Bridwell’s saddle, a collection of barbed wire, and a side saddle. Also, in this collection is the jewelry box made from the hoof of a stolen Waggoner Ranch horse. The stolen horse, used in the robbery of the City National Bank in 1898, was killed in the “get-a-way” as was the bank teller. The robbers were apprehended, hanged and are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Wichita Falls, Texas.
The Oil Exhibit relives both the modern and glory day of the Oil Boom in North Texas. |
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Monroe Street Station Post Office |
