This museum has been in our community for almost exceed years, and it is an important part of the community because we highlight the local natural history, local cultural history, and even some of the local science education. We do a lot of partnerships with texas a m university. We have exhibits that are longterm and shortterm. We do lots of childrens education, and we even have some live animals. I would like to show you a few things about our museum that we are so proud of. If you look over this direction, you will see a mural that we are incredibly proud of. It was done by a nationally recognized artist, painted on site. It has been here since about 1993, 1995, and it is the only place where you can see the brazos valley as it was 12,000 years ago and realize that some of the animals that are portrayed in the mural where the predecessors of our modern species. 12,000 years ago, we have lions, tigers, and bears in the brazos valley. That is something a lot of our visitors really enjoy, looking at the 50 different species that are portrayed in the mural. If you look hard enough, you can even see the early people that lived here during that time. One of the things in our collection that we are very proud of is the ice age mammal collection. This mammoth and mastodon skulls we have on display were actually found on the brazos river, and there is a long history that we have celebrating this with an early museum that was located at texas a m university. One of the other things that we have over here that pertains to ice age is our reproduction of the glhf did on, an early predecessor of the modernday armadillo. One of the things that is fascinating about our community is although the city of brian is our county seat right now, the town of louisville was the first county seat before the city of bryan. One of the things that we are really proud to have is some of the original surveying equipment that was used to to actually survey the town of boonville. You can see the original compass that was used to map the town. Of course, some of the materials they use, you know, when they are putting their minds and things like that. Hiram hanover was a very important figure in all of this because he was the original surveyor for the town. Cotton farming was really important in this area in the 19th century. A lot of immigrants, officially italians, who came to texas ended up you know, they did not have a lot of funds, so they ended up buying a lot of land along the river, the river bottom, but it turns out that that land was really great for cotton farming and pecan farming , and we still have a lot of cotton farming around this area today. The temperature and the way the land is along the brazos river was really very good for that sort of thing. We did have because we had cotton farming, so there was also slavery in texas in the area, this particular bale is a really early bale. It shows how they put them together. This is actually a hook scale and a hoisting beam so that they could weigh the cotton. This is just a simple cotton gin and separator. This was used in the 19th century as well. Of course, this is a different kind of bale. They tried this, doing a round bale, but it did not catch on, probably because it did not hold together quite as well as some of the other ways of bailing the cotton. Although we only have a couple of pieces, we are proud to be able to display a couple of pieces of santa ana silver that was apparently acquired during the battle of san jacinto. Texas history is important to us in this museum and i feel like that is an important part of what we as museums do, preserve and protect our local heritage for generations to come. You can watch this and other programs on the history of communication histories at cspan. Org. This is American History only on cspan3. Tveach week American History reel america brings you archival films that provide context for todays Public Affairs issues. This is korea, a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. In north korea, the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. In the south, the United States and United Nations strove to establish an independent democratic republic. Two years
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