One Hundred Years at Medina Lake

  To help celebrate the centennial anniversary of Medina Lake, the museum has created a traveling exhibit that explores the lake’s colorful history.  Beginning with Life Before the Lake, the exhibit explores the region of Medina River that provided sustenance and shelter for the early American Indians that camped along the river and the importance of the river to the cattle drives that brought cattle from South Texas to cattle trails leading to north.  With the construction of the Medina Dam to create a lake for irrigation purposes, the newly formed lake displaced ranchers who had to adapt to the loss of their land.  Many ranching families opened new lakeside businesses that catered to the tourists who flocked to the lake.  The exhibit also explores how the lake impacted the farms to the south and the creation of new farming communities in the Medina River Valley.

This exhibit is composed of seven stand-up banners (3’ x 7’)  and is available for loan.  Please call 830-796-3864 for more information.

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