This is especially important as the Texas Rangers will celebrate their bicentennial year in 2023.
The TRHC site includes a 12-acre campus that features a 350-seat open-air pavilion with a full catering kitchen and a Lone Star Stories Campfire Ring. The amenities support a wide range of event opportunities.
Phase I of the Texas Rangers Heritage Center is complete. The project on the town’s eastern edge was about 14 years in the planning.
In September 2013, then-Gov. Rick Perry and other dignitaries attended a groundbreaking ceremony on the land between Fort Martin Scott and the Hill Country University Center.
The Former Texas Rangers Foundation headed up the project. Phase I has a spacious open-air pavilion, which can seat 350 and features an amphitheater with a fire pit.
The site also includes a campanile (bell tower) and a Ring of Honor, and a 30-foot simulation of a Ranger badge which memorializes Rangers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
An historic flintlock rifle used by Mexican Texas colonist and elder statesman Ben Milam during the Siege of Béxar will be on display at the Texas Rangers Heritage Center when Phase II opens in the near future.
The foundation has begun fundraising for Phase II, which will feature a museum building. Construction is slated to start soon. There, visitors will learn about well-known Rangers and episodes in Ranger history.
Museum planners promise an immersive experience which will include interactive exhibits, a theater, galleries associated with the character traits of the Texas Rangers, and episodes of Rangers who battled bootlegging, counterfeiting and murder, and the man who stopped the University of Texas Tower shooter in 1966.
Youth will be taught the five Ranger traits of courage, determination, dedication, respect and integrity.
The Former Texas Rangers Association welcomes new memberships. Get more information about the organization at www.TRHC.org.
Contact the Texas Rangers Heritage Center office and the Former Texas Rangers. Foundatiom at 830-990-1192.
The property is open for viewing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday.
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