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Charlie Guidry says the history of Killeen is all about us, pointing out that actuality while continuing on a application of arena breadth Killeen’s aboriginal academy already stood.
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It austere bottomward in 1923 and was rebuilt in about the aforementioned place. The architecture housed the city’s acceptance until 1940. Affiliation now apperceive the architecture as Killeen Burghal Hall.
Just beyond the artery is the Boys & Girls Club Bingham Unit on Avenue B. That was the armpit of Killeen’s aboriginal hospital and clinic, and the abode breadth Guidry was born.
“I’m a built-in Killeenite,” he said. “I was built-in and aloft here, so this is a abundant fit for me.”
Guidry is one of about 150 associates of the Killeen Breadth Heritage Association, a nonprofit accumulation committed to attention the city’s history and educating affiliation about Killeen’s past.
The accumulation formed in 1983, captivation affairs at homes of its founding members.
“There wasn’t any accumulation like that aback then,” said Henry Lucksinger, who forth with his wife, Annette, was amid the group’s founders.
BELL COUNTY
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KAHA isn’t the alone accumulation in the breadth attention history.
When Stephanie Turnham abutting the Bell Canton Building in Belton in 1994, artifacts were housed in a abate building. Now, the building has developed in admeasurement and visitors as it expands and adds added barrio and exhibits.
Turnham estimates the museum, which was accustomed in 1991, alone had about 3,000 visitors 20 years ago.
The cardinal of visitors grew to 10,126 in 2012 and added than angled the afterward year, with 20,675 visitors in 2013.
“As the canton has grown, so has the museum,” said Turnham, administrator of the museum. “The aftereffect is that we’ve got this admirable facility. It’s free. We don’t allegation an acceptance fee to appear in, and it’s a admirable abode to absorb an afternoon.”
The building additionally has a analysis center, which appearance hundreds of books and abstracts about ancestry and canton history. Turnham additionally said the building has a “gold mine” of advice that affiliation can use in-house.
“It’s important for youths to apperceive the struggles and triumphs of their families and their ancestors,” she said. “Local history is absolutely important to bodies and to the community. It’s important to bottle the past. It’s acutely important to do that for the future.”
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Turnham said the building preserves the accomplished through a well-cared-for accumulating of items, best of which were donated by residents.
“I achievement that we will be able to accumulate up with the advance accident in our area, but accumulator amplitude for the accumulating is consistently an affair with all museums,” she said.
Kim Kroll, administrator of the Bell Canton Actual Commission, said the alignment conducted abounding projects to bottle history in the county, including creating a agenda adaptation of the “Story of Bell County,” which appearance photos and entries from families who grew up in Bell Canton throughout its history.
MISSING CEMETERIES
Kroll said the agency additionally has an alive cemetery board that looks for and abstracts “missing cemeteries.”
“They’re (cemeteries) that we apperceive are there, but we can’t acquisition them,” she said. Already the board locates the cemeteries, which are sometimes baby and on clandestine land, they add them to a adept account of all the cemeteries in Bell County. Every brace of years, a map is printed for actual record-keeping.
Kroll said the agency could use added associates as it works to analyze actual places or locations in crisis of actuality forgotten.
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She said there isn’t a absolute account of all the actual markers in the county, but ceremony burghal has their own archive of acclaimed sites. She said there are 254 sites listed in the Texas Actual Agency Atlas that accept a acclaimed appellation in Bell County.
As a society, Kroll said history is boring actuality forgotten.
“You accept to apperceive breadth you’ve been,” she said. “It’s acutely important that we accept our history, so we can account the bodies who were actuality afore and that we apprentice from our mistakes.”
Back in Killeen, KAHA afresh acclaimed its 30th anniversary. Today, the accumulation operates out of an old abbey on Gray Street. In accession to allowance bottle actual buildings, the affiliation has calm hundreds of items, photos and abstracts from the city’s acclaimed history, which dates aback to Killeen’s founding in 1882.
Those items accommodate aggregate from the agency acclimated by the California Hotel in city Killeen and the ablution dress beat by the baby babe of Killeen’s aboriginal ambassador to one of Elvis Presley’s dental X-rays.
“A lot of the items are donated by ancestors members,” said Guidry, KAHA’s president-elect and a history assistant at Central Texas College. “We are affectionate of the keepers of the alcazar as far as history goes.”
Despite the city’s acceptability for actuality a brief affiliation with atomic growth, Guidry said he stresses the amount of not alone accession and curating such items, but application them to acquaint the adventure of Killeen. “(History) shapes who we are today.”
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He said the affiliation is consistently attractive for new members.
“Thirty years later, and we’re aloof accepting broiled up,” Guidry said.
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