Previously planned for this fall, COVID-19 restrictions continue delays with final courthouse renovations. Centennial Celebration Date will be announced once renovations are completed. Tours, Time Capsule, and Exhibits inside the courthouse are just part of the celebration. We look forward to seeing all at that time. Until then, Be Safe, Be Smart, and Keep Family Close To Your Hearts!

Honorable Jim Huff, County Judge for Live Oak County, Announces: Texas Historical Commission approves Live Oak County Recorded Texas Historic Landmark! Narrative at Live Oak County Courthouse Registered Texas Historic Landmark (1920-2020). Photo courtesy Richard Hudson.

The first meeting of the 2021-2022 biennium is set for January 15, 2021 at 5:30 PM. Location TBA. Appointee applications for the new biennium were approved by County Judge, Jim Huff, and the Commissioners' Court at their last meeting on December 31, 2020. At that time the Court appointed Mary Margaret Campbell Chair for the 2021-2022 biennium. Campbell chose Richard Hudson to continue as Marker Chair for the new biennium. LOCHC will elect a slate of officers and committee chairs to serve 2021-2022 at the January 2021 meeting.

Ross Harris, Chair for the last two bienniums, and 2019-2020 LOCHC appointees enjoyed serving this last biennium and look forward to LOCHC moving forward in the coming years.

2021 Meetings: January 18, first Quarterly LOCHC meeting at 5:30 PM. Site TBA. Other dates and sites to be decided at the first meeting.

The Live Oak County Historical Commission (LOCHC) exists to preserve the rich heritage and cultures of Live Oak County and its part in historic preservation not only at home, but in the state of Texas and our nation. The Commission develops local programs and cooperates with other community organizations to encourage understanding and appreciation of Live Oak County's historical significance. Appointees apply and are approved by the Live Oak County Commissioners' Court. Meetings are held quarterly on the third Monday unless announced otherwise above. The public is invited. Each meeting begins at 5:30 PM and ends sometime soon after 7:00 PM.

In 2010 with the appointment of a new Marker Chair, the LOCHC began efforts to revitalize the organization which had become inactive. By 2012, Judge Huff and the Commissioner's Court appointed ten new applicants. First efforts were directed toward honoring historical persons, buildings, and events that deserved Texas Historic Markers which tell their stories for perpetuity.

Since 2012, the organiztion matured and meets quarterly. Appointees have voting privileges and are required to attend at least 3 meeting each year. The revitalized LOCHC planted fifteen additional markers, one more delivered to George West First Baptist Church awaits an unveiling ceremony, the Chapa family at the foundry, and yet another two approved by the 2020 THC Staff await approval from THC Board, then foundry service. This will bring the total LOCHC Texas Historical Markers to 41.  Two more are in process for 2021.

The narratives for all Texas Historical Markers  approved by the THC Board since 2012 can be found on this website under Texas Historic Markers. Unfortunately, previous marker narrative histories had not been passed down. THC has now provided these histories to the webmaster, and this website is providing them as time allows since most of those are either written by hand or old typewriters which do not reproduce readable form.

Archeology, Cemetery, Education, Oral History, Publicity, and Website chairs have active committees and continue historical recognition in numerous county and state events. These include: appropriate relocation of Patrick Allen Randel (Narcotic Agent felled in 1974) monument, Wreaths Across Amerca, Historic Texas Cemetery Designation, reconstructing Geronimo Memorial Site, Chisholm Trail Celebration, Visit to J. Frank Dobie original ranch, and numerous others.

The THC requests each biennium appointment be finalized in the early months of a new biennium. If you are interested in working with us in the 2023-2024 biennium, please consider obtaining an application from Judge Jim Huff's office in the courthouse on Houston Street in George West, Texas when open application period is announced by the Court in late 2022.  

2019-2020 Officers and Committee Chairpersons 

Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell: LOCHC Chair

Glynis Strause: Secretary, Oral History Chair

Leslie Walker: Treasurer

Richard "Hud" Hudson: Marker Chair, Publicity Chair 

Jim Warren: Archaeology Chair (Emeritus)

Bernard Lemley: Cemetery Chair

Nancy Coquat: Education Chair

Charlotte Schroeder: Hospitality Chair

Janis Hudson: Webmaster (Associate)

New 2021-2022 Appointees (includes above w voting privileges)

Charles "Chuck" Campbell

Bernadette Cordona Gibson

Ross Harris

Drusanne Hunter

Bernard Lemley

Robin Dawson McKinney

Rodney Nance

Charles (Gipper) Nelson

Cindi Robinson

Peggy Skoruppa

Associate Appointees (Attendance and comments welcome but not required-no voting privilege)

Emeritus Appointees

Virginia Horton

Betty Lyne

Sue Nance

Jim Warren