The final day of the Henrietta Hometown Pride Tour ended with a big celebration Friday as the community came together for the annual Pioneer Reunion Parade.
Clay County celebrates its 95th Pioneer Reunion, bringing the community together to celebrate its history and the people who help keep that history alive.
Most small towns have a museum telling the story of their founding and early days, but here in Seymour, the Whiteside Museum of Natural History tells a story that dates back more than 280,000,000 years.
For more than a century, Seymour City Park has served as one of the community’s most recognizable gathering places, offering residents a place to play, relax and create lasting memories.
Lake Kemp is one of North Texas’s largest lakes. Covering around 16,000 acres, the lake has been providing Seymour residents plenty of fishing and recreational opportunities.
For nearly a century, Rock Inn Cafe has been a familiar stop in Seymour. Whether it’s the locals starting their morning or travelers passing through, it’s a place where a good meal often comes with a good conversation.
Celebrating their 60th year, Jim Bowie Days is a week-long festival with several competitions throughout the week leading up to their U.P.R.A award winning rodeo.
Now 133 years later, event coordinator Bonnie Kinder said Bowie Second Monday Trade Days has grown into what is considered the second-largest flea market in Texas, trailing only First Monday, in Canton.
From a small North Texas town to customers wearing its hats across the country. American Hat Company continues to demonstrate how businesses in Bowie can make an impact far beyond the community they call home.
Just 10 minutes outside Graham, Fort Belknap stands as a reminder of Texoma’s frontier history and the role it played in shaping the region more than 175 years ago.
The Graham Drive-In has become a staple of the Graham community. It is recognized as the oldest operating drive-in theater in Texas and one of roughly 300 remaining in the United States.
The Santa Rosa Roundup Golf Tournament wrapped up another year at Hillcrest Country Club, closing out Vernon’s Hometown Pride Tour with a tradition that has become a staple of the annual celebration.
The Red River Valley Museum has been growing its collection alongside the Vernon community for more than 60 years and showcases history from prehistoric times all the way to the modern day.
As part of News Channel 6’s Hometown Pride Tour, Arts Council Wichita Falls Kemp Center for the Arts highlights how it brings together artists and the community through exhibits, performances and events.
Before the beads fly, the crowds gather, and downtown fills with music and color, Mardi Gras in Nocona began with a simple idea, to bring the community together.
Jack Crain’s name may stand above a football stadium, but his true legacy lives on in the people he encouraged, the faith he shared, and the town he was proud to call home.
Inside the small town of Nocona sits a piece of American baseball history, Nokona, the country’s only remaining baseball glove factory still manufacturing gloves in the United States.
“Our old red, white, and blue truck is kind of one of those things,” he said. “We hope that people will think, Oh yeah, I’ve been there. It’s in Nocona, Texas.'”
Henrietta Elementary School held its annual Pioneer Day this week, giving students a hands-on look at what life was like when Texoma was first settled.
Every second weekend in July since 1896, the city of Seymour has hosted its annual rodeo and it recently earned the distinction of being the longest consecutively running rodeo in Texas.
Students in the Seymour Youth Leadership Program are once again working to bring life and energy to unused areas of the community this time, through the creation of a new dog park called the Bark Park.
Sitting quaintly on Washington Street, the Baylor County Museum holds the stories and artifacts of a county rich with history many of which have been long forgotten.
In 1999, the city of Seymour purchased what was once a country club and turned it into a recreational area known as the Salt Fork Recreational Complex, open not just to its citizens but also to those from surrounding communities.
In 2010, a time when small businesses were doing all they could just hang on and keep their doors open, a fun-filled idea made its way to Nocona, Texas.