Museum

Callahan County Library and Pioneer Museum

Baird · Callahan County · Dedicated 1940 · THC Atlas #4200000036

Texas history, up close and curated.

About this site

Callahan County Library and Pioneer Museum is a museum in Baird, Callahan County, dedicated in 1940. It is one of 3 museums documented in Callahan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 46 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.3949, -99.3943 near Baird. The nearest cataloged historic site is Callahan County Courthouse (courthouse), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Camp Pecan, C.S.A., Callahan County, and First Presbyterian Church of Baird.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000036. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Baird Wednesday Club, a local women's civic club, established the Callahan County Library in 1937 and added the Pioneer Museum to it in 1940. The museum, in the basement of the Callahan County Courthouse, displays farm and ranch implements, household items, clothing, barbed wire, and historical documents. Callahan County was created in 1858, and its seat of Baird grew up along the Texas & Pacific Railroad in the early 1880s.

Sources: baird.ploud.net museumsusa.org tshaonline.org

📍 32.3949, -99.3943 · Baird, Callahan County

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