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Officers:
Chair, Larry Lof
    Brownsville (561-3671)
    lawrencelof@utb.edu
Vice Chair, Mary Torres
    Harlingen (345-4756)
    torresmary@aol.com
Secretary, Norman Rozeff,
    Harlingen (425-2932)
    nrozeff@sbcglobal.com
Treasurer, Jose A. Gavito, Jr. 
    Brownsville, (832-6493
    joseg@cob.us

 


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    Click to view CCHC By-Laws
    Click to see a list of CCHC Members
    Click to open the Treasurer's Reimbursement Form which can be printed.
 


The Next CCHC Meeting:  2:00 P.M. Sunday, June 15, 2008, Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum, corner of Boxwood and Raintree Streets, Harlingen, TX  
  Click for the April meeting minutes.        Click for the Agenda

 

 

Wanted: a Spanish-English translator to volunteer to translate a fictionalized, medium-length history book dealing with the Forto family of Brownsville. Required would be a good vocabulary in both Spanish and English and the ability to edit breathless Spanish into readable English. Please contact Norman Rozeff for information. 

 

 

 

On 25 April, 2007 the Brownsville Herald's "History Matters" column by Priscilla Rodriguez carried a report of her attendance at the Annual Conference of the Texas Historical Commission in Austin. At this meeting, she reports, several Cameron County entities and individuals received awards including CCHC  and some of its members. Click for her entire column.

Recent Additions to the Rozeff History Pages
(Click on a title to jump directly to that article)

Hand-Adams House History  (Revised 16 Jan., 2008)
Forty-niners in the Valley (Posted 15 Dec., 2007, some pictures added, 28 Jan., 2008)
Who Was Clay Davis? (Added to "Forty-niners" 20 Jan., 2008)
 The Story of Cameron County Courthouses (Revised 31 January, 2008)
 The Hicks-Gregg House (Posted 31 January, 2008, Modified 6 Feb. 2008)
ESTÉFANA  GOSEASCOCHEA CEMETERY Cemetery Marker Narrative by P.G. Cavazos (Posted 5 Feb., 2008)
 A couple pictures were inserted in the McLeod-Hood article on 18 Apr., 2008
 Civilizing the Frontier—The Porters   (Posted 26 April, 2008)
Brownsville's Forgotten Namesake   (Posted 24 Mar., 2008; Addendum placed 30 Mar., 2008; revised version posted 5 May, 2008)
 Dr. Héctor Pérez García, Hometown Hero of Mercedes, Texas  (On 14 May, 2008, an essay by Daisy Wanda Garcia was added to this original story.)
The McNair House of Brownsville (Posted 28 May, 2008)
Hicks/Lawrence House of Brownsville  (Posted 28 May, 2008)
Stuart Place History (Posted 6 June, 2008)
 


Not on this web but Click for a treatise on the Padre Island National Seashore that Norman found
 

A link to a historical site maintained by the University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southernmost College has been added in the links frame at left. It has great photographs and useful links. Or, just click here.


 The History-Art Committee announces details of the
2008 contest. Click for that page

    Mary Hardy, Chair
    Mark Clark
    Linda Correa-Garcia
    Rosaura Gutierrez
 

The Texas Historical Commission's Texas Heritage Trails Program has established a web site for each of its ten regions. The site for Texas Tropical Trail, which threads through Cameron County, is:
   http://www.texastropicaltrail.com/home/index.asp .
 The site contains a wealth of links, many dealing with entities in Cameron County. It's worth some surfing time.

For some time now, Norman Rozeff, of the Harlingen Historical Preservation Board, has been creating essays on the History of Harlingen and the Valley. Norman has generously made them available to the Cameron County Historical Commission. There are three pages of Rozeff articles which can be opened by clicking on their titles:
       Harlingen History        Valley History        Chronological History of Harlingen.

And, Norman points out a relatively new facility of the Texas Historical Commission--The Texas Historical Sites Atlas. It's available at http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/     There you can do such things as read the text on THC's thousands of historical markers or display interactive maps of historical sites, organized by county.

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    February, 2007  April 2007   June 2007  August 2007    October 2007    December, 2007    February 2008  April 2008

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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