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All Aboard the Historic Trail
“Carry-Along Collin” Goes to Camp
For Eager Trailblazers
The “Carry-Along Collin” student program, sponsored by the Collin County Historical Commission, has been very successful and will continue as in previous years. To encourage museum visits and local heritage education, Carry-Along Collin 2011 brochures will be available at the Collin County Museums and Public Libraries by June 1. This will be the second year of the theme, “Historic Importance of Railroads in Collin County”. Students are encouraged to collect a different railroad token at each of seven museums. A special train image board will be available to mount the collection.
In addition to museum visits program, the in-depth camp experience is being offered again this year, “Carry-Along Collin” Goes to Camp”. Ten museums will each offer a specialty camp once during the summer. This will be an opportunity for them to spotlight their museum features and increase local history appreciation.
The individual museum camp programs are described below. There are many opportunities to learn first-hand about the rich heritage of Collin County. Each museum offers a unique experience.
Parents should register directly with the specific museum for participation. Since each museum offers its own program, there are many choices for families of dates, costs, locations etc. Students may want to participate in one camp experience or many. Last year one student attended ALL eight available! Camp space may be limited.
Questions:e-mail collinhistory@yahoo.com Collin County Historical Commission
Sherley Bros. Store
Old Time General Store
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Time: 10:00-1:00
Ages 5 -11
25 campers
Cost: $5.00 per family
101 N. Sherley Street
Anna, Texas 75409
972-924-3927
Experience this general store that opened more than 115 years ago. The inventory is intact, almost the same as it was when it first opened. See early Texas hand tools, leather goods, farm machinery, and equipment for milking cows. Learn how a forge was used . The store served as a community gathering place in this rural setting.
Bring a lunch to enjoy while you visit this in this back-in time location.
Bain-Honaker House
Farmersville 1900
June 9, 2011
Cost: $10.00
Time: 9:00 – 12:00
Ages: 8-12
Campers: 20
108 College Street
Farmersville, Texas 75442
214-223-1222
Spend a morning in a home built in 1865. Participate in games and activities for children from the early 1900’s.Make corn husk dolls and rubber band guns. Learn about early residents, the Caddo Indians.
Parents can shop around the square in downtown Farmersville while children are at camp. Be sure and visit the historic Onion Shed while in town.
Allen Heritage Center/Depot
Flag Day Celebration
Monday, June 13, 2011
Time: 10:00-12:00
Ages: 7- 10
25 campers
Cost: $10.00
100 E. Main Street, Allen 75002
972-727-8985
www.allenheritageguild.org
Campers will learn the importance of the U.S. flag by seeing the many different flags on exhibit at the Depot. Campers will learn proper flag etiquette and participate in a scavenger hunt throughout the Depot, with clues related to the flags on display. A personal cloth flag will be made to take home. Additional time will be spent learning about Allen and the importance of the railroad in its history.
Interurban Railway Museum
Electric Railway Experience
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 12:00
Ages: 6-12
20 campers with parent chaperones
Cost: $10.00 with mug
901 E. 15th St. Plano 75074
972-941-2117
www.interurbanplano.org
A quick overview of Plano’s early history will frame the time period when the Texas Electric Railway connected the entire North Texas region. A tour of Texas Electric Railway Car #360 will feature the opportunity to mail a postcard similar to those of the early 20th century. Campers will communicate in rail “language” using signal lanterns and will then create their own train using chalk on the park sidewalks. Children will take home a commemorative mug.
Heritage Farmstead MuseumPioneer Camp
Tuesday June 21, 2011
9:00 to 1:00
Ages: 6- 12 (Bring a lunch)
20 campers
Cost: $40.00 - includes a T-shirt
1900 W. 15th St. Plano 75075
972-881-0140
www.heritagefarmstead.org
The “Pioneer Philosophy” is taught from our one room school house and emphasized as campers explore the turn-of-the century farmstead! “Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.” Chores begin each camper’s day. There are animals on the farm that need to be cared for and fed. Once the chores are done campers will walk to the one-room school house for the day’s lesson which includes Victorian Candle making. Recess will be given and children will experience games/toys from the turn of the century; including the ever popular cow patty chuckin’ contest. Campers will finish the day with a wagon ride.
Oliver, Allis-Chgalmers,Massey-Harris, Farmall, John Deere…… It’s a roll call of historical farm equipment that changed the way we grow food. Join us at the Collin County Farm Museum and visit with volunteers rebuilding old gas and steam powered tractors. Additionally, campers will build and design their own tractors, plant crops and discover technology long forgotten. Before leaving, campers will take a tractor pulled hayride through the museum outdoor exhibit displays located throughout the parks 165 acres.
The Heard-Craig House
Katie’s Art Camp
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
10:00 to 12:00
Ages: 8-12
20 campers
Cost: $15.00 including apron
Heard-Craig Carriage House
205 ½ West Hunt Street, McKinney 75069
972/569-6909
www.heardcraig.org
Join us in the in the Heard-Craig Carriage House for an art class much like young Katie Heard attended in 1894. Young artists will create a pastel or watercolor to take home following the camp. A Katie’s Art Camp painting apron will be given to each participant as an additional memento from the camp. The camp concludes with a tour of the historic Heard-Craig House where the young camp artists will see Katie Heard’s art on display.
Heard Natural Science Museum
Wildlife Camp
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
10:00- 12:00
Ages: 3-12
25 campers
Cost: $6/kids: $9/adults
1 Nature Place, McKinney 75069
972-562-5566 X237
www.heardmuseum.org
Enjoy a 45minute animal talk, then check out the indoor Bats exhibit, outdoor Butterfly House and Animals of the World exhibits. Visit heardmuseum.org for all the details.
Frisco Heritage Museum
Frisco Pioneer Experience
Saturday, July 9, 2011
10:00 to 12:00
Ages: 5 -12
36 campers
Cost $15.00
6455 Page St. Frisco 75035
972-292-5665
www.friscomuseum.com
Learn about country toys and games before there was Toys-R-Us. Campers will also get a chance to learn about a day in the life of students by visiting the “One Room” Schoolhouse.
Chestnut Square Historic Village
Experience Collin County in the 19th Century
Friday, July 29, 2011
10:00 – 12:00
Ages 6-12
50 campers
Cost: $10.00/$20.00 with a T-shirt
315 S. Chestnut St. McKinney 75069
972-562-8790
www.chestnutsquare.org
Join the Chestnut Square leaders in a 19th century experience. Learn Dutch oven cooking, see a blacksmith at work, create your own calling cards in our one-room schoolhouse, take an “Antique Scavenger Hunt”, and learn the games that the children played way back when!
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