FIELD TRIPS
Our day trips are back and open to everyone! Come explore Texas towns and the historical landmarks that make them popular. These are private tours and experiences that will make you Texas proud.
Experience Texas’ History and Its Preservation in Palacios on May 20! Only three tickets left!
The Heritage Society and Author/Professor Stephen Fox will explore the early twentieth-century Texan town type of the bayside resort.
The tour will include an enlightenment of the “Save the Luther” preservation efforts of the 1903 Luther Hotel, a visit to the City by the Sea Museum, lunch at the historic 1907 Hotel Blessing in Blessing, Texas, and concluded with a wine reception somewhere charming!
During the 1890s, railroads were constructed from Texas’ inland cities to the Gulf coast not only to transport goods but to convey urban tourists to the seashore. Palacios in Matagorda County, 107 miles southwest of Houston, is an outstanding example of the Texan coastal resort community. Located on a peninsular site bracketed by Trespalacios Bay, Turtle Bay, and Matagorda Bay, Palacios was developed in 1904 by Houston real estate promoter W. C. Moore. Moore built the town’s iconic resort structure, the now-threatened Luther Hotel, and managed to persuade the Texas Baptist Encampment to anchor one corner of his town in 1906. Palacios retains its downtown brick business buildings, its bayfront avenue of bungalows, and its palm-shrouded prospects of Matagorda Bay. Together, they comprise an engaging landscape of early twentieth-century Texan leisure.
GREAT WAY TO END THE DAY TRIP AT a WINE RECEPTION AT THE Pierce RANCH HOUSE!
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Tickets are non-refundable.
This trip was partially underwritten by one of our board members.
