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Museum and Visitor Center
of the Bastrop County Historical Society

Library/Archives

The Society's library contains books, publications and files on the history of Bastrop County, its towns, its communities, its historical homes and families.  Cemetery records, family files and many out-of-print materials are available for research.  Staff will be delighted to assist and to make copies of documents, subject to copyright, for a small charge; books and other archival material are restricted to on-site use, however.

Our photograph archive is extensive.  We have over 2,400 photographs which include, among other things, a picture of the 1889 reunion of Terry’s Texas Rangers, classroom pictures of rural schools in the late 1800s, a fat man contest on Bastrop’s Main Street in about 1900, the 1889 Old Iron Bridge bridge across the Colorado at Bastrop, and the beautiful entrance into the cemetery for German prisoners at Camp Swift.

All rights to photographs and documents belonging to the Bastrop County Historical Society are reserved to the Society.

Emile High School Band, 1922.  B. W. Kerr, teacher.
Front row - Lee Hopkins, Sethie Green, Charles Sanders,
Charles Carter, Richard L. Holmes (base drum),
Berryman, Alton Wright (snare drum). 
Top row-  J. H. Taylor, Roosevelt Jones, and Theo C. Franklin.
  Photograph courtesy of Marjorie Franklin.