Texas Historical Commission
Kingsville Historic Resources Survey Report
The Kingsville Historic Resources Survey Report was a grant funded project to document the extant cultural resources in the local Kingsville Historic District and to develop recommendations for the preservation of the historic resources of the area through potential creation of neighborhood districts or nomination for placement of individual properties on the National Register of Historic Places, the State register, or the local register. In the fall of 2011, Robert Trescott, Downtown Manager for the City of Kingsville, proposed that Texas A & M University Kingsville (TAMUK) partner with the City in the completion of the Inventory and Survey of the local Kingsville Historic District. In July 2012, the City hired Cynthia Martin, Architectural Historian, as a consultant to work on the project.
Texas Tropical Trail Region Records
This collection is the Texas Historical Commission’s Project: Texas Heritage Trails Program Records dating from 2002 to 2013. The South Texas Region, Tropical Trail Region, covers 20 counties including the Gulf Coast from South Padre Island to Refugio to the Brush Country from George West to Cotulla and Brownsville, all-encompassing the Wild Horse Desert in the heart of the region which includes Hebbronville and Falfurrias. The records reflect the site visits to this region.
Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
Joe Stanley Graham, professor of Anthropology and folklore at Texas A&M University-Kingsville from 1988 until shortly before his death in 1999 lived and worked on ranches in southwest Texas ultimately studying at the University of Texas, Austin with Dr. Amerigo Paredes, a leading folklorist from south Texas. Dr. Graham continued Dr. Paredes work of collecting materials about the rural Mexican and Mexican American communities, the people and their folkways. Hundreds of photographs, interviews, student term papers, and research materials used for museum exhibits have been saved for future researchers of his favored topic.