Preserve, protect, promote: County Historical Commissions and what they do

This month each of Texas’s 254 counties appointed or reappointed groups of local citizens who have pledged to serve twoyear terms as custodians and promoters of their local heritage. I’m referring to your County Historical Commission (CHC). Mind you, it’s not a Society, or a Committee, or a Club—though such history and preservation groups do exist throughout the state a...