About

 

Mission: The Rockwall County Historical Foundation, maintaining that the past should be preserved for the future, encourages the restoration, education, and recognition of significant places and people, thus allowing all to enjoy the treasure that is our past.

Identity: We advance our mission of connecting the past to the present for the future and seek to engage the community by serving our neighbors in Rockwall County through interactive, accessible programming and emphasizing our competitive advantages of creating connections through history. We are sustainable by these connections.


Museum Staff

Museum Administrator:  Bryant Lee
Assistant Museum Administrator: Michelle McWhorter
Staff: Layne Miller

  Rockwall County Historical Foundation Board of Trustees 2025

President Johnny Myers
President-elect Darlene Singleton
Treasurer  Mark O’Connor
Secretary Patty Griffin
Trustees at Large Mitchell Brown III
Christie Cheek
Debbie Graves
Stacey Massar
Mark Russo
Dalton Tassett
Sharon Tuley
Rick Wilcox

The Rockwall County Historical Foundation holds a board meeting on the second Friday of every month at the SouthState Bank Community Room (901 E. Kaufman St.) at 1:15pm. These meetings are open to the public.

All buildings, structures, and features of the museum, including the historic homes, gazebo, reconstructed wall, well, windmill, carriage house, outhouse, and tenant cabin are private property of the RCHF. RCHF is not affiliated with the City or County of Rockwall.