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Heritage Village Museum

When Tyler County Her- where.”
itage Society raised the Gazzaway travels around
money in record time, the state promoting the
to buy what has become Village in many different
the present day Heritage venues, and that promo-
Village from artist and tion pays off.
entrepreneur Clyde Gray “We’ve seen a lot of in-
back in 1985, they had crease in our busloads of
only a vision for what it people, including groups
might become, and knew from Harris County and
it was worth saving from Louisiana,” she
for Tyler County. Thirty said. In fact, the Village
years later, the Village gets calls and visits from
Museum and Pickett people from all over the
House restaurant draws U.S. and beyond. The key
thousands of visitors to to the ever increasing
Tyler County every year. numbers, Gazzaway says,
Heritage Village Museum is located just west of Wood- Museum Director Ofei- is providing a positive
ra Gazzaway says the
experience for every
ville on Hwy. 190 W. reason why is simple: a visitor. “Word of mouth
The museum and museum store are open from 9 a.m. great facility, successful is very important to us.
Students who visit with
educational effort, and a
until 3 p.m., Monday - Friday; and, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., lot of very hard working their school go home
Saturday and Sunday. volunteers and docents. and tell their parents
The Pickett House restaurant is open from 11 a.m. until “The Village lets visi- what a great time they
had, and the parents
2 p.m., Monday - Friday; and, 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., Satur- tors step back into Tyler then come out to tour
day and Sunday. County’s pioneer histo- the museum and eat at

You can get complete information and scheduling on ry, and learn something the Pickett House.
about how people lived
their website at www.heritage-village.org. here before industrial In addition to the spin-
time,” Gazzaway ex- ners and weavers build-
plained. “It is a real ing (the latest addition
educational effort.” to the always growing
Village), the Village
Hundreds of school features a blacksmith
children, from the lo- shop, buggy barn, coun-
cal area, and well be- ty store, and exhibits
yond Tyler County, tour showing town life. The
the Village each year. doctors office, jail and
“Thankfully, we have a post office are replicas
lot of volunteers that of early Tyler County
give freely of their time businesses. There are
to help out and we also historic buildings
are always looking for depicting daily life in
more. But it is worth early Tyler County.
the effort,” Gazzaway
explained. “When the “The latest addition to
children sit there and the Village is the Clyde
watch a lady spin yarn, Gray House Museum.
and then watch a weav- The museum celebrates
er make cloth from the artist Clyde Gray,
the yarn, they see how who sold his “Heritage
complicated life could Gardens Museum” to the
be in pioneer times. You Historical Society. It is
couldn’t just go to the filled with his art, and a
store and buy the fab- great place to start your
ric. It came from some- tour.”