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The Smith County Historical Society offers monthly meetings for our membership and the public! Join us the first Tuesday of every month. Our social hour starts at 6:30 and the meeting and program will begin at 7 PM! Please note that we meet upstairs in the Payne Auditorium. The front door will be locked so please join us around the corner at our second entrance (across from the bank drive-thru). This month we will be joined by Brent Horton. Mr. Horton will be providing a fun and interesting program on Baseball in Smith County!  

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

This gala will be the first unveiling of the new World War I commemorative exhibit “Wading Through Blood: The Great War and Smith County Men”. Please join us for wine and hors d’oeuvres Saturday, November 18, 2017 beginning at 6:30 PM. Help us in honoring the nearly 1,500 soldiers, with ties to Smith County, that served in the Great War.   Tickets are $40.00 per person for members and $60.00 per person for non-members. Sponsorship levels are available.   Don’t forget to keep up-to-date with this event on our Facebook page!  

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

This month we will be joined by Carol Kehl. She will be sharing with us a fascinating story of film productions produced between 1935- 1958 that were found in a warehouse in Tyler. Six short films, nine features, and a set of newsreels all produced for African American audiences were found and are now held at the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at SMU. Join us and watch three of these ten minute productions while learning more about their history. We will be hosting our social hour beginning at 6:30 P.M. and the meeting will begin at 7 P.M. Please remember that these meetings and programs are open to the public so feel free to invite your friends and family, and to share this event page with others! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through Facebook or call (903) 592-5993. In addition, please remember that our front door will be closed before and after the meeting and we ask everyone to use our side entrance.

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!