The Sachse Historical Society was established in 1989 to install a pride of community in the young people of Sachse, preserve historical objects and data representing Sachse and keep the community’s heritage alive and available to the public. Our stated mission is, “Preserving the past for the enlightenment of the present generation and recording the present for the benefit of future generations.”
Most recently, we’ve restored our 1948 Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine and received a historic marker from the Texas Historic Commission for one of Sachse's first public buildings. We are currently restoring a 1939 Allis Chalmers Model B tractor, expanding our antique farm equipment exhibit, building a Sachse Veterans' Exhibit and collecting oral histories. In collaboration with the Sachse Public Library we are seeking a grant to digitize The Sachse Sentinel, the bound editions of Sachse's first newspaper that are in possession of the Sachse Historical Society.
The Sachse Historical Society makes use of the Grassroots.org Toolbox to host our website. We chose the Doodlekit Web Builder option because it allows non-programmers to maintain the website and keep the content fresh. Our website is the window to the Historical Society and Museum; it allows people from around the world to find us and connect our organization with the Sachse family’s history and collections Our website has become a key component of communication among members and with the community.
As a result of being able to share these resources with the community, we have been contacted by Nicolette B. Meister, a collections curator from the Logan Museum of Anthropology, who is co-authoring a new small museum book series to be published by AltaMira/AASLH. Nicollette found the following collections policy on our website and is using the text as a sidebar in the chapter on that subject: "The distilled version of your collections plan is an excellent example of how the importance of collections planning and target collecting areas can be conveyed to the public in a very concise, straightforward way."
We’re also using TierraNet’s free email service through the Toolbox. Using that and mail forwarding, we created professional email addresses that can remain unchanged as the membership evolves. To find out more, feel free to check out our website or email us at [email protected], one of the addresses we setup thanks to Grassroots.org!
-Karen Reed
President, Sachse Historical Society
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