The Jacob and Christine Brodbeck Foundation

04/15/2026

Time for ! Every Monday we post an image that we need YOUR help in identifying. Comment below or email us at [email protected]. Thank you for helping us preserve history!

📷: This photo from 1960 depicts two children participating in an Easter egg hunt organized by the 87 Drive-In Theater. Names unknown.

04/15/2026

Join us as we celebrate Founders Day in Fredericksburg and our 2026 Pioneer Spirit Award winners.

The Founders Day Luncheon will be held on Friday, May 1 at 11 a.m. Limited tickets are available.

Purchase tickets or tables here: one.bidpal.net/founders26/welcome

04/15/2026

*ATTENTION BRODBECK FAMILY*

The workday for this Saturday, April 18th, has been cancelled due to the weather.
We will reschedule for a later date and keep you posted!

Email the foundation if you have questions.
[email protected]

03/30/2026

Applications for the 2026 Flora Wertheim Scholarship are now being accepted! Eligible applicants are current Gillespie County seniors who are entering an accredited college in the current or upcoming school year.

The deadline to apply is Friday, April 3, 2026.

See details below and find more information online at pioneermuseum.org/scholarship

03/30/2026

03/30/2026

Our annual Founders Day Luncheon and Pioneer Spirit Awards are coming soon. Join us Friday, May 1st for the celebration of Fredericksburg's History and Heritage and honoring Evelyn Weinheimer and the GCHS Archival Volunteers.

Tickets go on sale April 1st. Limited seats available!

Find more information here: pioneermuseum.org/founders-day

03/30/2026

We are one week away from our April Complimentary Public Program!

Come learn about the beloved Easter Fires fable and the upcoming pageant from historian Glen Treibs and Gillespie County Fair & Festivals, Inc.

📆Friday, April 3
🕒Doors open at 3 p.m., program begins at 3:30 p.m.
📍Gillespie County Historical Society Sanctuary, 312 W. San Antonio St.
🎟 Complimentary!

03/30/2026

Time for ! Every Monday we post an image that we need YOUR help in identifying. Comment below or email us at [email protected]. Thank you for helping us preserve history!

📷: A group of unidentified people dressed as bunnies participated in the 1978 Easter Fires pageant.

03/11/2026

Time for ! Every Monday we post an image that we need YOUR help in identifying. Comment below or email us at [email protected]. Thank you for helping us preserve history!

📷: A friendship or signature quilt was recently gifted to the Museum from a resident of Minnesota who purchased it at an auction in North Salem, New York. Through extensive research, it was determined that the quilt has ties to the neighborhood near Frantzen Park and South Milam St. in Fredericksburg.

The quilt will be available for viewing during History Harvest on Friday, March 6 at 3 p.m. We hope you join us and help us in identifying who was the creator or recipient of this quilt.

03/09/2026

Today is our first-ever History Harvest! Join us at 3 p.m. in the Gillespie County Historical Society Sanctuary for this complimentary program featuring:

- Tim Dooley from Dooley's 5-10-25 c Store
-Evelyn Weinheimer, former educator speaking on the first teacher in Gillespie County, Ludwig Erhard
-Dave Schafer, local historian presenting on Barbecue Diplomacy

We hope to see you there!

Can’t make it? No worries! Watch it live or after here: https://www.youtube.com/live/bsZZ2c6l1ls?si=exgrR8hMIK3YTgey

03/09/2026

Time for ! Every Monday we post an image that we need YOUR help in identifying. Comment below or email us at [email protected]. Thank you for helping us preserve history!

It’s Girl Scout cookie season in Fredericksburg 🍪

📷: Junior Girls Scouts 5th grade Fly-Ups in October 1963. Rose (Mrs. Louis) Loth, Leader
Front, L-R: Gwen Phillips, undentified, -Loth, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified

Back: unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Elaine Phillips, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, -Roos