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 The popular and award-winning children’s summer program is back for its fifth year!
Sponsored by the Collin County Historical Commission, this program invites students to discover local history by visiting local museums, attending local camps specifically created for Carry-Along Collin and, for the first time ever, go geo-caching to find county historical markers!
How To Start
Visit any Collin County public library or museum for a Carry-Along Collin brochure. In it will have information about all the local museums to visit this summer. It will also have basic information about the ten museum camps being presented this summer for which you can sign your kids up. Lastly, it has GPS clues to find a number of historical markers located all over the county.
What to Do
- Have fun! When your children visit each listed museum they will receive a Carry-Along Collin token created specifically for that museum. Collect all seven!
- Sign up! A popular activity of the Carry-Along Collin program for any of the camps listed in the brochure, or see below for camp information. But do it soon, since all the camps fill up very quickly!
- Go geo-caching! This summer’s new feature with Carry-Along Collin is finding historical markers located all over the county by using a GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation system. The markers’ coordinates are listed in the brochure. Check out who’s found what so far!
- Be recognized! Contact us at collinhistory@yahoo.com to let us know that you’re participating in Carry-Along Collin, and we’ll include you in on an end-of-summer special event. And when you’re out there geo-caching historical markers, send your pictures to Eric Nishimoto at enishimoto@collincountytx.gov to post on the county web site!
List of Camps
The individual museum camp programs are described below. There are many opportunities to learn first-hand about the rich heritage of Collin County. Each museum offers a unique experience.
Parents should register directly with each museum for participation. Since each museum offers its own program, there are many choices for families of dates, costs, locations etc. Students may want to participate in one camp experience or many. Last year one student attended ALL eight available! Camp space may be limited.
Sherley Bros. Store, Old Time General Store
101 N. Sherley Street, Anna, Texas 75409, 972-924-3927
Tuesday, June 7, 2011, Time: 10:00-1:00
Ages 5 -11, 25 campers
Cost: $5.00 per family
Experience this general store that opened more than 115 years ago. The inventory is intact, almost the same as it was when it first opened. See early Texas hand tools, leather goods, farm machinery, and equipment for milking cows. Learn how a forge was used. The store served as a community gathering place in this rural setting.Bring a lunch to enjoy while you visit this in this back-in time location.
Bain-Honaker House, Farmersville 1900
108 College Street, Farmersville, Texas 75442, 214-223-1222
June 9, 2011, Time: 9:00 – 12:00
Ages: 8-12, Campers: 20
Cost: $10.00
Spend a morning in a home built in 1865. Participate in games and activities for children from the early 1900’s.Make corn husk dolls and rubber band guns. Learn about early residents, the Caddo Indians.Parents can shop around the square in downtown Farmersville while children are at camp. Be sure and visit the historic Onion Shed while in town.
Allen Heritage Center /Depot, Flag Day Celebration
100 E. Main Street, Allen 75002, 972-727-8985, www.allenheritageguild.org
Monday, June 13,2011, Time: 10:00-12:00
Ages: 7- 10, 25 campers
Cost:$10.00
Campers will learn the importance of the U.S. flag by seeing the many different flags on exhibit at the Depot. Campers will learn proper flag etiquette and participate in a scavenger hunt throughout the Depot, with clues related to the flags on display. A personal cloth flag will be made to take home. Additional time will be spent learning about Allen and the importance of the railroad in its history.
Interurban Railway Museum, Electric Railway Experience
901 E. 15th St. Plano 75074, 972-941-2117, www.interurbanplano.org
Tuesday, June 14,2011, Time: 10:00 to 12:00
Ages: 6-12, 20 campers with parent chaperones
Cost: $10.00 with mug
A quick overview of Plano’s early history will frame the time period when the Texas Electric Railway connected the entire North Texas region. A tour of Texas Electric Railway Car #360 will feature the opportunity to mail a postcard similar to those of the early 20th century. Campers will communicate in rail “language” using signal lanterns and will then create their own train using chalk on the park sidewalks. Children will take home a commemorative mug.
Heritage Farmstead Museum, Pioneer Camp
1900 W. 15th St. Plano, Texas, 75075, 972-881-0140, www.heritagefarmstead.org
Tuesday June 21, 2011, 9:00 to 1:00
Ages: 6- 12 (Bring a lunch), 20 campers
Cost: $40.00 - includes a T-shirt
The “Pioneer Philosophy” is taught from our one room school house and emphasized as campers explore the turn-of-the century farmstead! “Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.” Chores begin each camper’s day. There are animals on the farm that need to be cared for and fed. Once the chores are done campers will walk to the one-room school house for the day’s lesson which includes Victorian Candle making. Recess will be given and children will experience games/toys from the turn of the century; including the ever popular cow patty chuckin’ contest. Campers will finish the day with a wagon ride.
Collin County Farm Museum, Tractor Training Camp
Myers Park and Event Center, 972-548-4792 or jrogers@collincountytx.gov for registration (Jennifer Rogers), http://www.collincountytx.gov/parks/myers/farm_museum.jsp
June 22, 2011, Time: 9:30 to 11:30
Cost: $10.00 a day
Camp Ages: 5-11 years
20 campers
Volunteers 12 years and older are encouraged to participate
Oliver, Allis-Chalmers,Massey-Harris, Farmall, John Deere…… It’s a roll call of historical farm equipment that changed the way we grow food. Join us at the Collin County Farm Museum and visit with volunteers rebuilding old gas and steam powered tractors. Additionally, campers will build and design their own tractors, plant crops and discover technology long forgotten. Before leaving, campers will take a tractor pulled hayride through the museum outdoor exhibit displays located throughout the parks 165 acres.
The Heard-Craig House, Katie’s Art Camp
205 ½ West Hunt Street, McKinney 75069, 972/569-6909, www.heardcraig.org
Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 10:00 to 12:0
Ages: 8-12, 20 campers
Cost: $15.00 including apron
Heard-Craig Carriage House
Join us in the in the Heard-Craig Carriage House for an art class much like young Katie Heard attended in 1894. Young artists will create a pastel or watercolor to take home following the camp. A Katie’s Art Camp painting apron will be given to each participant as an additional memento from the camp. The camp concludes with a tour of the historic Heard-Craig House where the young camp artists will see Katie Heard’s art on display.
Heard Natural Science Museum, Wildlife Camp
1 Nature Place, McKinney 75069, 972-562-5566 X237, www.heardmuseum.org
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 10:00- 12:00
Ages: 3-12, 25 campers
Cost: $6/kids: $9/adults
Enjoy a 45minute animal talk, and then check out the indoor Bats exhibit, outdoor Butterfly House and Animals of the World exhibits. Visit heardmuseum.org for all the details.
Frisco Heritage Museum, “Gone to Texas”
6455 Page St. Frisco 75035, 972-292-5665, www.friscomuseum.com
Saturday, July 9, 2011, 10:00 to 12:00
Ages: 5 -12, 36 campers
Cost $15.00
Come experience the life of a pioneer child in Texas and learn about the various chores required of kids to help their families, and then it is off to the one-room schoolhouse to participate in a vintage school day. Campers will also get to see an actual metal forge demonstration in Gaby’s Blacksmith Shop. Besides making their very own Texas flag, each camper gets to take home a 99-piece jigsaw puzzle.
Chestnut Square Historic Village, Experience Collin County in the 19th Century
315 S. Chestnut St. McKinney 75069, 972-562-8790, www.chestnutsquare.org
Friday, July 29, 2011, 10:00 – 12:00
Ages 6-12, 50 campers
Cost: $10.00/$20.00 with a T-shirt
Join the Chestnut Square leaders in a 19th century experience. Learn Dutch oven cooking, see a blacksmith at work, create your own calling cards in our one-room schoolhouse,take an “Antique Scavenger Hunt”, and learn the games that the children played way back when!
Any Questions? Contact us at collinhistory@yahoo.com.
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