“Old Trails and Roads of Southeast Texas”
Schedule
Fri, 21 Mar, 2025 at 06:00 pm
Location
818 Earnest Ave, Silsbee, TX, United States, Texas 77656 | Silsbee, TX
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Did you know that two roads intersect in Downtown Silsbee that have been there since the 1700's? When Southeast Texas was explored by frontiersmen and settled, before it was a state, how did people get from town to town in a wilderness in a time and place where you were isolated from the world? Join us at the Ice House Museum to hear Ted A. Campbell, historian, author, and expert on early maps and history tell us the stories of the old roads in Southeast Texas when it was a frontier, and how many of them still exist beneath modern roads we travel every day. Biography of Speaker: Ted A. Campbell is a historian, an author, and an elder in The United Methodist Church. Born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1953, he was educated at Lon Morris College, the University of North Texas, Oxford University, and Southern Methodist University. He serves as the Albert C. Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, and as Archivist of the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom. Dr Campbell has written numerous books and articles in the area of Methodist history, and he has also written on the early history of the Dallas, Texas, area. As he transitions into retirement, he is returning to a long-envisioned study of the early history of Southeast Texas including studies of its native Atakapa Ishāk people. An article co-edited with Dr Geoffrey Kimball, “Ten Speakers for the Dead: Hidden Native Identities of Speakers of the Atakapa/Yukhíti Language in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1885-1908” is scheduled for publication in Louisiana History for February 2025.
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Where is it happening?
818 Earnest Ave, Silsbee, TX, United States, Texas 77656Event Location & Nearby Stays:
