Texas Civil War Museum to Close After 17 Years in White Settlement

Texans who long to see Union and Confederacy paraphernalia and other relics of a long-gone era should head to White Settlement while they can. Dennis Partrich, the director of sales and marketing at the controversial Texas Civil War Museum, announced on Facebook last week that the museum will close its doors Oct. 31.

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Oilman Ray Richey and wife Judy opened the 15,500-square-foot Texas Civil War Museum in 2006 as a way to showcase their collection, which included both Union and Confederacy artifacts and Victorian-era dresses. It also housed a collection that came from the now-defunct Texas Confederate Museum in Austin. {snip}

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The museum has received plenty of criticism over the years for glossing over slavery and serving as a propaganda machine for Confederacy history. In 2017, Dallas removed the 1935 statue “Robert E. Lee and Young Soldier” from a city park, and only the Texas Civil War Museum wanted to take it.

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