Exhibits of WCHM

Swedish Immigrants in Williamson County

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Uncovering the Past Exhibit

Uncovering the Past takes you on a journey through 13,000 years of human life, where diverse groups of people lived long before the arrival of Europeans. Discover what archeologists and others have learned about the people who lived in Texas and the Americas before us, and how new discoveries change we thought we knew.

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Mural Exhibit
The Museum Works Project (MWP)

Historical photographs can say a thousand words, but a mural tells the whole story.

With this project, the museum captures the spirit, nostalgia, and beauty of the 1930s and 40s public art style with seven stunning history-themed murals.

Significant historical events and individuals were common themes of the original PWAP, and the Museum will continue in this tradition with the creation of the Phase I murals:

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All Right Side Up -

In the latter half of the 19th Century, cattlemen rounded up longhorns by the millions in Texas, cropped their ears, branded their hides, and drove them north across the Indian Nations into Kansas along the Chisholm Trail to the rail heads to be shipped back east. Somewhere along the way, without intending to do more than work for a hard day's pay and board, they launched the legend of the American cowboy.

The cattle drives followed three major routes through what is now Oklahoma and Kansas .

One of those routes, was known as the
Chisholm Trail.

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"Return to Splendor"
the Williamson County Courthouse Exhibit

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“WELCOME TO WILLIAMSON COUNTY”
The exhibit focuses on the communities and towns across the county. Photographs and statistics from towns such as Liberty Hill, Jarrell, Taylor, and Cedar Park depict the people and places of Williamson County’s history.

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