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The next Dayton Historical Society meeting will take place Monday evening July 26, 6:00 p.m., at Parker Hall which is located behind The Old School Museum at 111 W. Houston Street. The program will spotlight the founding of the Dayton ISD Sports Hall of Fame, give information about several of its talented inductees, and talk about the Hall of Fame Museum that displays sports memorabilia from 1917 to the present.
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The Liberty County Historical Commission (LCHC) is sponsoring its First Annual History Art & Essay Contest and all young Liberty County residents between the ages of 5 and 18 are invited to enter!
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When Mary Anne Campbell began her career at the Liberty-Dayton Chamber of Commerce in 1990, she had already spent years as a part of the local business community, with stints at Taff Insurance Agency, Liberty ISD, Hull-Daisetta ISD, Hull State Bank (now Texas First Bank), and Liberty County Teachers Federal Credit Union. Now, after 31-years, she wrapped up her time their July 15.
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Thomas Jefferson Chambers was born in Orange County, Virginia, later known as Culpepper County, on March 22nd, 1840, to Landon Gore Chambers and wife, Mary Green Allan. Chambers migrated to Liberty, Liberty County, about 1857 and became associated with H. C. Shea, publisher of The Liberty Gazette on August 2nd, 1858. By August 1859, Chambers was the sole editor of the Gazette.
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