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Tuesday 1pm - 5pm Wednesday 1pm - 5pm Thursday 1pm - 5pm Friday 1pm - 5pm

Baylor County Museum, 116 N Washington Street, Seymour, TX (2026)

Name: Baylor County Museum
Address: 116 N Washington Street, Seymour, TX, 76380, US
Telephone: (940) 889-6780
Price range: Not applicable

There are many families and organizations that have donated items from their past.

08/12/2026

The next video in the series “Things You May Know, and Things You May Not Know about Baylor County” is about the hottest day in Texas history, 90 years ago today on Wednesday, August 12, 1936, right here in Baylor County.

Hope you all are enjoying the series! Thank God for air conditioning…not sure if I could have survived 90 years ago 😆

08/03/2026

Credit to Mark Potter on the Wichita Falls "Then and Now" Facebook Group...TV listings on Sunday, August 1, 1971 for the 3 Wichita Falls area stations...KFDX (Channel 3), KAUZ (Channel 6), and KSWO (Channel 7).

This was the year before the Texas Rangers came to Arlington. The Astros were the only Texas MLB team at the time.

07/23/2026

The next video in the series “Things You May Know, or Things You May Not Know, about Baylor County”, about Elvis’s concert at the Seymour High School Auditorium on April 25, 1955!

Special thanks to Janice Vita Thornhill and Daphna Simpson for their help in the Elvis concert research, with photocopied articles and accurate anecdotes to try to help separate fact from fiction.

07/21/2026

A Sneak peek of the next video in the “Things You May Know, and Things You May Not Know about Baylor County” series 🤔

Let me just say…once digging deeper in research (mostly old Banner articles and online archives)…this actual topic ended up being nothing like the story that I originally thought it was…

Put your guesses in the comments on what you think it will be about!

As always, check out the museum for more info on all of these videos! Open today from 1-5 PM!

07/20/2026

They were told women didn't belong in professional rodeo. So they built their own.
Nancy Binford grew up on a ten thousand acre ranch near Wildorado Texas. Thena Mae Farr started riding with her father near Seymour Texas at just two years old and was competing in barrel racing and cutting horse contests by age ten. Two ranch cowgirls from the Texas plains who loved rodeo with everything they had — and kept getting told that professional competition wasn't for them.
By the 1940s rodeo producers had largely pushed women out of roughstock and timed events entirely. The few who were allowed to compete were awarded gifts instead of prize money. Hairpins. Saddle blankets. Trinkets. As if their performances weren't worth a single dollar. Nancy and Thena Mae talked about it between themselves for years — the frustration building with every rodeo where they watched men collect checks while women collected housewares.
Then in September 1947 they stopped talking and started doing.
They produced the Tri-State All Girl Rodeo at the Amarillo fair grounds — a rodeo where women didn't just compete. They ran everything. The contestants. The event judges. The clowns. The arena directors. The pickup women. Every single role filled by a cowgirl who had been told she didn't belong in professional rodeo. The largest crowd in the history of that fair showed up to watch.
Five months later on February 28 1948 thirty eight women from Texas and Oklahoma met at the St. Angelus Hotel in San Angelo and built something that would outlast every one of them. The Girls Rodeo Association — now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association — the oldest women's professional sports organization in the United States. The only one controlled and managed entirely by women from its very first day.
In its inaugural year the GRA had 74 members and conducted 60 events with a total payout of $29,000. Within two years membership had surpassed 100. Within a decade barrel racing was a fixture at every major rodeo in America. Within a generation women were earning prize money equal to men at the National Finals Rodeo.
Nancy Binford served as GRA President in 1950. Thena Mae Farr followed her into the presidency in 1951. They continued producing all-girl rodeos across Texas Colorado and Mississippi until 1951 — building stages for cowgirls in states that had never seen women compete professionally before. Then they dissolved the production company together — confident that what they had built would stand on its own.
It has been standing ever since.
Charmayne James. Sherry Cervi. Hailey Kinsel. Kassie Mowry. Every barrel racer who has ever backed into a box at the Thomas and Mack Center and chased a gold buckle under those Las Vegas lights — she is there because two ranch cowgirls from the Texas Panhandle got tired of being handed hairpins and decided to do something about it.
That was Nancy Binford and Thena Mae Farr. 🤠🎀🙏

07/19/2026

New series on “Things You May Know, or May Not Know, about Baylor County”! Check out this video by Dacy Briggs on the Western Trail coming through this area 150 years ago!

Address

116 N Washington Street
Seymour, TX
76380

Opening Hours

Tuesday	1pm - 5pm
Wednesday	1pm - 5pm
Thursday	1pm - 5pm
Friday	1pm - 5pm

Telephone

(940) 889-6780

Website

http://baylorcountymuseum.wixsite.com/baylorcountymuseum

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