MuseumPioneer Museum
Sweetwater · Nolan County · Dedicated 1967 · THC Atlas #4200000410
Texas history, up close and curated.
About this site
Pioneer Museum is a museum in Sweetwater, Nolan County, dedicated in 1967. It is one of 3 museums documented in Nolan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 32 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.4737, -100.4026 near Sweetwater. The nearest cataloged historic site is I.M. (Mose) and Margaret Newman House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Ragland, R.A. House, Davis House, and First Baptist Church of Sweetwater.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000410. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Pioneer City County Museum in Sweetwater is a historic house museum serving the city and Nolan County, housed in the Ragland House, a residence built in 1906. The Nolan County Historical Society began collecting artifacts in 1967, and after moving among several locations, received the Ragland House as a 1975 donation from Robert A. Ragland; the restored home opened as the Pioneer Museum on July 4, 1976, in a ceremony also marking the nation's Bicentennial, and earned a Texas Historical Commission medallion in 1979. Its dozen-plus rooms retell county history from pioneer days through the oil boom with photographs, ranching implements, and Native American artifacts.
Sources: pioneermuseumtx.orgtexashistory.unt.edutexastimetravel.com
