Lipscomb: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Metal building with a covered wagon, windmill, and large arrow on the front lawn

Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Metal archway saying St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery

St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery

Portrait of family with eight children

Jacob Herber Family. (Wolf Creek Heritage Museum)

building behind a rail fence and a field

Lipscomb’s first county courthouse, 1887. (Wolf Creek Heritage Museum)

Aerial view of a small town on an open plain with railroad tracks in the foreground

Railroads were an integral part of town development in the Texas Panhandle. Higgins, a short distance from Lipscomb. (Wolf Creek Heritage Museum)

People in horse-drawn carts in front of several buildings

Using materials at hand, many plains settlers built homes from sod. Lipscomb County, date unknown. (Wolf Creek Heritage Museum)

Harvesting grain using a steam thresher to project grain onto a large mound

Steam threshers were used in harvesting wheat crops. Lipscomb County, date unknown. (Wolf Creek Heritage Museum)

Wolf Creek Heritage Museum tells the story of Russians of German descent, some of the first residents of Lipscomb and the Texas Panhandle. The museum features clothing, artifacts, and artwork from Lipscomb County residents – past and present.

The story of this ethnic community continues at nearby St. John’s Cemetery, started in 1916 when Jacob and Amalia Koch – early homesteaders – allowed church members to bury family members on their land in Lipscomb. The land was finally deeded to the church in 1950, and given state historical recognition in 2006.

Thirty miles outside Lipscomb, in Booker, Kiowa Cemetery is the final resting place for a number of German-Russian families who settled along Kiowa Creek in 1910.

Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

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