MuseumDot's Mini Museum
Vega · Oldham County · THC Atlas #4200001041
Texas history, up close and curated.
About this site
Dot's Mini Museum is a museum in Vega, Oldham County. It is one of 5 museums documented in Oldham County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 19 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 35.2474, -102.4315 near Vega. The nearest cataloged historic site is Milburn-Price Culture Museum (museum), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Old Tascosa, Loyd, Doctor Oscar H., Home County of, and Oldham, W. S., Texas Confederate Senator.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200001041. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Dot's Mini Museum is a tiny roadside collection on Route 66 in Vega, tracing its origins to 1944 when Dot Leavitt and her husband ran a frozen-food locker business serving locals and passing travelers. Housed in a small room roughly eight by twenty feet, the free museum displays Dot's eclectic collection of cowboy boots, Avon bottles, and Route 66 memorabilia. Dot was inducted into the Texas Route 66 Association Hall of Fame in 1997, a Texas Historical Marker was placed at the site in 2003, and her family continued caring for the museum after her death in 2006.
Sources: hmdb.orgroute66times.comoldhamcofc.org
