Castro Colonies Heritage Association

10/11/2026

The Keller Huth Museum • Honoring The Namesake

The Keller Huth Museum carries the names of two families who helped shape Castroville and Medina County from the very beginning.

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Louis (Ferdinand Louis) Huth arrived in Texas in 1844 as one of Henri Castro’s most trusted leaders. Born in Baden, he met Castro in Paris and became a driving force behind the new colony. When Castro returned to Europe, Huth stayed behind to guide the settlers. He served as Castroville’s first Justice of the Peace, Medina County clerk, tax assessor, and chief justice. He also helped establish Quihi, operated a store, brewery, and gristmill, and is remembered as one of Castroville’s true unsung heroes.
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The Keller name represents generations of hardworking local families (farmers, educators, coaches, and community builders) who have called the Castroville, La Coste, and Rio Medina area home for well over a century. Their continued support and charitable contributions help keep our shared history alive for the next generation.

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Together, the Keller and Huth names remind us that Castroville’s story is one of courage, resilience, and deep community roots. The museum stands as a living tribute to the pioneers who built “The Little Alsace of Texas” and the families who continue to care for its legacy.

Come visit, learn the stories, and help preserve this special place for the future.

Castro Colonies Heritage Association

10/09/2026

Tomorrow (October 10th) is the day! We’re excited to show off what we have done! Come join us!

09/26/2026

To get ready for the grand opening of our Museum, we are having a workday tomorrow Sunday September 27th at 1:00 p.m.
If you can help, we would appreciate it!
Living History Center at 309 Paris Street in Castroville.
Thanks!

09/26/2026

07/31/2026

Interested in information on Castro Colonies’ founder, Henri Castro. See information below.

07/31/2026

Interested in Castroville’s founder Henri Castro? Some information will be new.

07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July from the Alsatian Dancers of Texas!

06/20/2026

06/17/2026

Calling all helping hands for workdays at the Living History CENTER!
Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 8:00 AM - ?

We will be cleaning, painting, doing yard work, etc. Bring items you may need to help.

Many hands make light work! Thanks!

04/28/2026

From our Alsatian family. Please share everywhere!

A heartfelt letter of gratitude arrived today from Olivier Braun, the lead teacher who brought the film crew from Munster, Alsace. Read on....

There are journeys that change a schedule, and there are journeys that change a life.
We left Alsace with cameras, notebooks, and questions.
We returned from Texas with something far greater: voices, faces, hands held, stories entrusted, and a living thread stretching across the ocean.

In Castroville, we did not simply film a place. We encountered a memory that refuses to fade. A language carried like an ember. A culture not preserved in glass, but lived—spoken, danced, shared around tables, passed from one generation to the next with quiet pride and stubborn grace.

To all of you—families, dancers, historians, students, friends—who opened your doors, your homes, your archives, your hearts: thank you is too small a word.
You did not welcome us as visitors. You received us as kin.
We came searching for traces of Alsace and we found a mirror.
And in that mirror, we saw not only what remains—but what continues, what transforms, what resists time.

There is something profoundly moving in realizing that identity is not a place—it is a movement. A crossing.
A voice that travels, falters, rises again, and finds new breath thousands of miles away.
Between Munster and Castroville, something now exists that did not exist before. Not just a film. A bond. A bond made of shared laughter, of long conversations under warm Texan skies, of accents meeting and reshaping one another, of young people discovering that history is not behind them—but alive, and calling.

We carry you with us. In our images. In our words.
In the film that will soon be born from this extraordinary human adventure.
And this is only the beginning.
Because what has been woven together here—between Alsace and Texas—will not unravel.
It will grow.
It will echo.
It will inspire.

Across the ocean, an Alsatian voice still speaks.
And now, it speaks louder than ever.

With gratitude, admiration, and friendship—always.
We sincerely hope we can come back to share the movie with you !
Olivier & the French Film Making Team, Fabrice, Romain, Anna Bella, Anna Pepper, Clément & Gaël.