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Hello, I am Linda Ferris, president of the Tehuacana Heritage Society in the tiny, but historic town of Tehuacana, Texas (pop. 224). In the town center remains the original administration building of Trinity University, constructed in stages from the 1860s to 1870s. It is a wonderfully built limestone second empire structure admitted to the National Registry of Historic Sites in the late 1970s. In the summer of 2022, the “Pride of Limestone County” suffered devastation when its west roof collapsed due to consistent snow events, ice, and rain.
In the 1930s, Tehuacana's need for a venue for sports and community events came with Westminster College's Old Gymnasium. Square dancing and concert events brought folks from all over central Texas to the town. At this time, the structure remains closed as the need for accessibility, restrooms, and kitchen facilities are primary reasons for its disuse. Also, apparent is the exterior maintenance requiring updated paint, secure doorways, and landscaping. Please help with a business plan here, also.
Our society would like to help the current owners (Trinity Institute) find funding to begin a grant process and prepare a business plan for the building. It remains certainly non-useful to the tiny town, shut down to visitors and unavailable to the institute as a meeting place venue, something with our tiny township is suffering.
The minimum goal donation of $2500 will make an available option for setting a business plan, for initial money to clean up the refuse and begin grant writing. An ultimate goal of $5500 will provide funds for revolving grant options.
We hope you will see this as an opportunity to help the small town of Tehuacana to bring back its glorious “high point on the hill” in Limestone County, Texas. Thank you so very much!