Donna: Donna Hooks Fletcher Historical Museum

Two storey small commercial building with tile inset saying The Donna News and a red awning saying Historical Museum

Donna Historical Museum (Valerie D. Bates)

Man and woman standing in front of a tall sign with a longhorn on it marking the Chisholm Trail

Peter Preston Ackley (Steve Myers)

Peter Preston Ackley standing next to a Chisholm Trail marker installed on a bridge

Ackley in 1934 at placement of a marker on the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin.

Automobile pulling a wagon advertising the Chisholm Trail with a marker on an island in the middle of the street in front of the Texas state capitol building

The marker now on the lamppost at 11th and Congress in Austin was originally on a traffic island.

Chisholm Trail marker set in a park

Chisholm Trail marker in City Square Park, Donna

The Donna Hooks Fletcher Historical Museum houses numerous artifacts and exhibits from the town of Donna’s history. Inside the museum, you’ll find a small pictorial exhibit of the town’s history as an early pass-through on the Chisholm Trail. In the town square outside stand a statue of Donna Hooks Fletcher, a Chisholm Trail marker, and a Great Western Trail obelisk.

Donna Hooks Fletcher Historical Museum

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