MUSEUM CAN HELP SAVE HISTORIC ITEMS FROM FLOOD DAMAGE

  

Flooding from last week’s record rainfall could damage pieces of Washington County’s history.

Doug Price, executive director at the Brenham Heritage Museum, says the museum is helping family members care for the water-soaked items, including cleaning and “stabilizing a German atlas brought from Germany in the 1860s.

Price says there has been a significant amount of destruction of pieces of county history in the flooded homes of residents – including one home in the New Year’s Creek area flooded, saturating 150 years of family artifacts.

Price says the museum is available to help people with similar issues, but need to get to the items quickly before the damage is irreparable.

Price says the museum is not looking to take possession of these items, only to assist in saving family photos, historic documents, or artifacts from being destroyed.

Price said the museum is planning to hold a free seminar Monday at 2 p.m. “to teach people how to do some of this themselves.”

The Brenham Heritage Museum can be contacted at 830-8445.

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