Join us for the TWHS Fish Fry Fundraiser on March 16!
Reserve your $15 meal tickets by calling the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum at 979-366-2441 or email museum@texaswendish.org.
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Wendish Fest featured in Texas Monthly
It’s trendish to be Wendish! Thank you Texas Monthly for joining us at Wendish Fest and educating others about the Texas Wends! Check out the full article here.
Who Are the Wends?
In December of 1854, an English sailing vessel, the Ben Nevis, docked in Galveston harbor loaded with some 500 immigrants from Lusatia, an area in Germany comprising parts of Saxony and Prussia. These immigrants were not the typical lot of Germans, Swedes, Czechs, and Poles who flocked to...