The Wharton County Museum is dedicated to preserving the history, culture, and traditions of the county. One of the oldest counties in Texas, Wharton is part of the land grant from Mexico settled by thirty-one families of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, and became one of the earliest core settlements of Anglos and African-Americans.
Preserving this area's rich human history reaches back over 10,000 years, when Wharton was initially inhabited by Paleolithic cultures that evolved into the coastal Indian tribes of Karankawa and other bands. Pushed out by European settlers, the Karankawa ultimately relinquished some of the most fertile, beautiful, and rich land in Texas.
English, American, African-American, Indian, Czech, Danish, Mexican, and many other cultures formed the tapestry of history that is now preserved in the museum. Come visit us and get a view into one of the best and most dramatic stories in the Americas!
