Audie Murphy Day is May 18

Audie Murphy Day is May 18

WWII soldier was topic at Rockwall County Historical Foundation lecture ROCKWALL, TX (May 13, 2024) – Susan Lanning, Director of the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Hunt County, was the guest speaker for the latest Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series at the Historic Courthouse in Rockwall. Susan discussed the history of cotton in Greenville and North […]

Executive Director brings new ideas to Rockwall County Museum

Executive Director brings new ideas to Rockwall County Museum

  ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 20, 2022) The Rockwall County Historical Foundation welcomed Katie Conrad in June as their new Executive Director of the Rockwall County Museum. Conrad is the first to hold this position, since it is a new role initiated by the RCHF this past year. But according to Conrad, she is looking forward […]

Historical Foundation free lecture series explores Rockwall’s 20th century transportation, roads

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 4, 2017) The Rockwall County Historical Foundation and Rockwall County Historical Commission present the Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series 2017. These programs are free and open to the public from noon to 1 p.m. (usually on the second Friday of the month) in the third floor courtroom at the Historic Downtown Rockwall […]

Rockwall County Historical Foundation announces Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series 2016

(ROCKWALL, TX – Jan. 11, 2016) The Rockwall County Historical Foundation and Rockwall County Historical Commission present the Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series 2016, which features programs of historical interest from noon to 1 p.m. in the third floor courtroom at Rockwall’s historic downtown courthouse, on the second Friday of the month unless otherwise noted*. These events […]

‘Growing Up in Rockwall’

(Rockwall) September 16, 2012 – The Rockwall County Historical Foundation started the fall season of its Brown Bag Lecture Series with a program about “Growing Up in Rockwall,” presented by Linda Mitchell Duran. Linda used modern technology to show pictures of buildings, teachers and fellow Rockwall natives. New Texas Historical Commission Board appointee, Mike Donegan […]