Heritage Village - Woodville, Texas

Heritage Village - Woodville, Texas

Come and visit the living museum filled with everything from the 1800’s to early 1900’s.  You can visit the old blacksmith shop or check out the railroad deport.  If you have never been to a livery stable then you will want to make sure and take a few minutes to visit here.  There are log cabins that are just as they were during the 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Just think of what it would be like to have to take your team of horses into the blacksmith shop to get them new shoes so they can continue to work for you without you having to worry about splits and breaks in the hooves that would cripple the horse.  This would take you at least a day while the shoe was made and put on the horse.  While you are waiting for the blacksmith to finish his work you probably would want to go to some of the shops that are in town and buy the supplies that you will need for the next month or so.

Maybe you will need to go over to the depot to meet someone coming in for a visit, or maybe you just want to see the big steam engine roll into town.  You may see someone interesting get off (now remember, a lot of this is what you can imagine it would be like in the 1800’s not what is really happening when you are visiting the village.)  You can go back to the time when your imagination was fresh and you could think of all these wonderful things to do!

Go to the log cabins and see if you would have liked to live in them.  The work that was required to keep a home going in those times was certainly more intense than it is today, there was wood to chop for cooking and heat, there was butter to be made from the cows you had to milk twice a day.  There were eggs to pick daily and probably stalls that needed to be cleaned out and animals that needed to be fed. 

The laundry that we throw into the automatic washer today would have had to have been washed by hand on a scrub board and hung out to dry.  A bath would require the water to be heated (if there was a pump in the house, otherwise it would have to be hauled and then heated) and put into one of the copper washtubs where everyone in the family took a bath in the same bathwater, the cleanest washing first and the dirtiest washing last.

Then there were the rugs that needed to be made to keep the floor warm when the winter and the list goes on and on, but what this village will be able to show you is that there were really strong, hardworking people that lived during those times to make the Great State of Texas so wonderful today.

Come and visit, see all there is, go back in time through your imagination with the props that are there that show how the west was really won.  Enjoy the experience and come back often.

The village hosts an array of different celebrations throughout the year for you to enjoy so regardless of when you get to the area, you will be able to enjoy the Heritage Village experience.

Hours of Operation: Daily 9 - 5 except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, New Years Day and Easter.

Admission: Adults: $4, Children under 12 $2.

Guided tours are available with advanced notice.  Senior discount and group rates are available upon request.

School groups are welcome: For groups of 50 or more the cost is $2 for students and $3 for chaperones and teachers.

Seniors rate of $14 includes tour, meal at Pickett House and gratuity. (Groups of 20 or more the bus drivers’ comp’d.)

Phone: 409-283-2272 or 800-323-0389

Email: info@heritage-village.org