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    Whitehead Memorial Museum

    4.2 (15 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Chris L.

    A motley collection of old and new buildings, some relocated from elsewhere in Del Rio, memorialize a motley collection of heroes and rogues from Del Rio history. Read the history of the local radio station owner, local physician, lawman and others. Admire some old tractors and tiny cars. Kids will love climbing through the 1947 caboose car. The Cadena nativity is a large indoor air-conditioned diorama of the birth of Jesus. Don't miss the barbed wire exhibit! Grounds include La Zapa Chapel. I'm not sure how the Indonesian cockatoo and the South American Macaw birds fit in to Texas history but you can see them too. Also an outdoor event space with a big bar & a pavilion, host a party here. Admission price of $8 per adult is outrageous but parking is free.

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    Dena F.

    This was a great little place...though the museum should have the words "final resting place of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos" somewhere in the name. I'm a West Texas junkie and that was the main reason we went there...to pay our respects to one of the finest men in the history of the Wild West. The museum itself is great. Really cute, lots of different types of exhibits. Old historical buildings have been rounded up, air conditioned (big selling point for me), and filled with either period pieces or made into a museum for some related topic. They have the first mercantile from the area complete with family living quarters upstairs. And this isn't a stay-behind-the-velvet-rope kind of place. This is a get-out-there-and-touch-something kind of place. I'm sure they did not intend on me doing this, but I totally played "What Child is This" on Lillie Langtry's traveling piano...poorly. But still...this is the actual piano that Lillie Langtry used to play and I PLAYED IT. They have exhibits from XERA which was part of the old Mexican radio tradition and home to Wolfman Jack to one of the largest nativity scenes ever assembled. They have old buildings, cabooses, dioramas, banks, replicas of the Jersey Lily and tons of other cool stuff. AND...it's built on the old San Felipe Irrigation Canals, which is pretty darned cool. They also have birds and prairie dogs. *moment of silence* And of course, the final resting place for Judge Roy Bean. *wipes away a little tear* You know he was totally in love with the actress Lillie Langtry. He named the town Langtry, the bar was the Jersey Lily, and he even built and Opera House for her to sing in when she visited. And they conversed regularly. She did come to visit him, but he died just months prior to her visit.

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    This place is great, very informative. Workers are very nice and helpful. A definite must for the kids.

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    though the museum should have the words "final resting place of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos" somewhere in the name.

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    October 27, 2022…read more Update now of any comment, try one thousand two hundred forty four (1,244)! My previous has fourteen votes and has six votes! There are actually three categories for this CITY OF UVALDE! One category, the one person from Texas gave FIVE STARS, saying the family went down for in remembrance of those killed! The other four at ONE STAR, many harsh words for the police in Uvalde! I cannot write like that, those four reviews bring anger to me! Well, as my first comment says, I did not at time know what was happening! I found out because the Reverend at Upper Room Church in town Auburn, California, was naming the names! I found this category is empty, so try on this empty category! There are hotels in Uvalde, there are hospitals, there are museums! Think even may be a Blood Bank! Not sure how many schools, what I understand when the Reverend was reading the names and showing the pictures, this had to be an elementary school! Nineteen children and two teachers! One had to be the main teacher and the other had to be the assistant teacher! Just as in Sunday School where I teach two year olds to five year olds, I am the Assistant Teacher! Too many lately of (NAME OF CITY) Be Strong! There were BOSTON BE STRONG, ORLANDO BE STRONG, now is UVALDE BE STRONG! Just too much of school gun violence, just too much of mass shootings at different schools! Soon in December will be anniversary of Newtown, Connecticut school shooting! Please my "friends" of Uvalde, my thoughts have been with you and my prayers have been with you! I the Tiger say let guns be banned, let guns be confiscated! We are not in days of the Old West anymore, too many guns are being used to kill innocent people!

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