McDade, Texas Historical Museum
In 1962, Mr. Marvin Bishop loaned the McDade Historical Society enough money to purchase two buildings, the one pictured and the one next door. This building, the Old Rock Saloon, built by San Jacinto Veteran, John Dempsey Nash, is the oldest building in McDade and serves as the McDade Historical Museum. The McDade Historical Museum is right downtown in McDade, Texas. Located in beautiful northern, Bastrop County, on U.S. Highway 290 between Austin and Houston, falling within the Presidents' Corridor, between the Aggie A&M and the Longhorn's T. U. Texas. Although McDade is now pastoral and serene, what a place it must have been! McDade's early history is of notorious gangs, outlaws, murderers, notch-cutters, hangings, dances, saloons, vigilantes, stage robberies and especially the Shoot-out on Christmas Day, when blood ran cold in the streets of McDade; the courts ruled it "A Merciless Killing". It was where several bodies were left dangling beside the road and anonymous graves appeared in local cemeteries overnight. These events help to record the dark pages of McDade's history in the 1870s and 1880s, but there is also the brighter side too, good honest people came bringing their families, early business men rushed into town to make quick money, farmers came to settle the land and plant crops. Many of the settlers were the finest of citizens whose descendants still live in McDade today.
Early Beginnings of the McDade Historical Society 1963
April 20, 1963 check to Secretary of State $25.00
June 29, 1963 check to Webb, Webb & Meredith $50.00 Attorney
fee -Incorporation
June 29, 1963 check to Annis C. Williams,
Trustee -Commit. for McDade Bldg. date 6-10-63
Signed by Mrs. Alvin Eschberger
treasurer
| 1963 | 1964 | 1965 |
| President:----------------Jewell
Hudler Vice President-----Pauline Stagner Secretary --------Mrs. Lela Kastner Treasurer----Mrs. Alvin Eschberger |
President
-----------------Jewell Hudler Vice President-----Pauline Stagner Secretary-----------Mrs. Lela Kastner Treasurer----------Mrs. Alfred Kastner |
President----------------------Jewell
Hudler Vice President----------?Pauline Stagner Secretary-------------------Melvin C. Smith Treasurer--------------------Melvin c. Smith Directors: Jewell Hudler Pauline Stagner Adeline Eschberger O.J. Moore Dan Wolf Leonard Kastner Fred Taylor Alton Greenhaw Frank Creel |
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| 2000 | 2003 | 2004 |
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Grissom-----------------------President John Moore ------------------Vice President Emy Lou Goeritz Pulliam--------Secretary Mary Jane Mundine Davis-------Treasurer MIKE DAVIS |
Jane Davis Mike Davis Lousie Mundine Marie Moore John Moore Kathy Grissom Don Grissom Erhard Goerlitz Lousie Goerlitz Ernestine Schulz Lawrence Schulz Roger Payne Janice Payne Audrey Rother Lou Pulliam Tony Pulliam Thelma McDavid Henry Grimes Fred Wilson Freda Wilson Morris Kastner Vernell Kastner Barbara Parker Scott Talbert Maxine Turnipseed Leola Carman Lisa Lach |
Jane Davis Jean Bahney Mike Davis Astrid Burnette Larry Burnette LouiseMundine Marie Moore John Moore Kathy Grissom Don Grissom Erhard Goerlitz Lousie Goerlitz Ernestine Schulz Lawrence Schulz Roger Payne Janice Payne Audrey Rother Lou Pulliam Tony Pulliam Thelma McDavid Henry Grimes Cleo Grimes Fred Wilson Freda Wilson Morris Kastner Vernell Kastner Barbara Parker Scott Talbert Maxine Turnipseed Leola Carman Lisa Lach Kathy Musgrave David Musgrave Andy Amescua Janie Amescua Bonnie Woolery Sue Woolery |
| 2005 | 2006 | |
| Jane Davis Mike Davis Andrew Lewis Marie Moore Kelly Lewis John Moore Thelma McDavid Kathy Grissom Scott Talbert Don Grissom Laurie Talbert Erhard Goerlitz Becky Gregory Louise Goerlitz Ronnie Gregory Roger Payne Janice Payne Lou Pulliam Tony Pulliam Henry Grimes Cleo Grimes Freda Wilson Barbara Wilson Fred Wilson Morris Kastner Vernell Kastner Andy Amescua Janie Amescua Oscar Dube Loretta Dube Leola Carman Audrey Rother |
President------Don
Grissom Secretary-----Kathy Grissom Treasurer----Jane Davis Jane Davis
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