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    Stockyards Museum

    3.9 (14 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Tim T.

    this is an excellent museum there are many items to see and read about in here. You can learn a lot about It The people that use to come through he buying and selling cattle. You can also buy gifts to take home videos on how it all started. It's very inexpensive to walk through to help learn about the area.

    Museum is located in the Live Stock Exchange
    Eric W.

    Part museum, part gift shop, it's the perfect stop for the men while the women are shopping for pink cowboy boots and whatnot. Though the museum is small, there really is a lot of cool stuff to look at. My favorites are the old pictures and the three-ring binder on the history of Swift & Co. (or was it Armour?). The Stockyards Museum Is Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.--5 p.m. and Memorial Day through Labor Day--Sundays from Noon to 5 p.m. The museum is free, though donations are accepted. Web address (until info gets updated): http://stockyardsmuseum.org PS. If it's playing, try to watch the "Wall Street of the West" DVD, narrated by Barry Corbin (of Northern Exposure fame). It's quite interesting. That reminds me, I need to see if the library has a copy. [update] Fort Worth Library does have a copy!

    Christa M.

    Thoroughly enjoyed myself here. The museum has so many cool retro antiques. They decided to let you get up close and personal to the items, without touching of course. Came here for the Palace light bulb, but was delighted by everything else. Highly suggest you stop here $2 admission while in the Stockyards.

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    Jing X.

    This isn't a museum. It's more of a small gift shop located inside the Livestock Exchange office building that's empty during the weekends. There's a $2 admissions fee. We walked past the windows and peeked inside. Didn't look interesting so we passed.

    This is the Bad Luck Wedding Dress. It has been through 4 generations. You have to come see it.

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    The history here is great! Things you have never seen! If you want to get the Stockyards story, this is the only museum telling that.

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    So awesome to explore the botanical garde as a family. There are plenty of trees for a shaded…read morewonderful experience. Go in the spring before it gets too hot. Fue increíble explorar el jardín botánico en familia. Hay muchísimos árboles, lo que hace que la experiencia sea maravillosa y esté llena de sombra. Vayan en primavera, antes de que haga demasiado calor. Es ist einfach großartig, den Botanischen Garten als Familie zu erkunden. Es gibt dort jede Menge Bäume, die für ein schattiges und wunderbares Erlebnis sorgen. Besucht ihn am besten im Frühling, bevor es zu heiß wird. È stato fantastico esplorare il giardino botanico in famiglia. Ci sono tantissimi alberi che rendono l'esperienza meravigliosa e ricca di ombra. Andateci in primavera, prima che faccia troppo caldo.

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    I really hate to hear this museum is closing. It is such an amazing find. We spent HOURS here and…read moreit had a ton of people visiting it. It was definitely my favorite part of our trip to the area! I couldn't believe all the artifacts it possessed. Texas played a significant role in the American Civil War Secession: Texas joined the Confederacy in early 1861, a few weeks before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. Texas declared its secession from the Union on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861, after it had replaced its governor, Sam Houston, who had refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. Military: Nearly 90,000 Texans served in the military. Leaders of the Texas forces included legendary figures John Bell Hood, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Bankhead Magruder, Patrick Cleburne, and Ben McCulloch. Battles: Texas forces fought in many major battles, including Gettysburg, Antietam, Second Manassas, Wilson's Creek, The Wilderness, Vicksburg, Corinth, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Glorieta Pass, Pea Ridge, Gaine's Mill, Franklin, and Mansfield. Texas also defended its own coastline, repulsing Union invaders at Brownsville, Sabine Pass, Galveston, Corpus Christi, and Laredo. Blockades: The Union blockaded Galveston, Houston, and other ports, making it difficult for farmers to export their crops. Closing: The surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy at Galveston on June 2, 1865 was, as Capt. Benjamin Franklin Sands of the United States Navy noted, "the closing act of the Great Rebellion." Just a few weeks later on June 19, Gen. Gordon Granger, commander of U.S. troops in Texas, arrived in Galveston and ended slavery in Texas by issuing an order that the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect in Texas later to become known as Juneteenth.

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