Harrison County Historical Museum

The main galleries fill the museum's 1901 courthouse at 1 Peter Whetstone Square, a Neo-Italian Renaissance building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1977. The museum itself opened in 1964. Its exhibits start with Caddo culture and move through the county's history to the present, with a room on Wiley College, a historically Black college in Marshall.

Some objects reach well beyond the county: Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural ball gown and Lyndon Johnson's matching suit, Bill Moyers's Emmy for his documentary about Marshall, and George Foreman's world championship belt. Across the square at 110 East Houston, the Service and Sacrifice Gallery in Memorial City Hall covers local military history from the Civil War through the War on Terror. A separate North Gallery at Marshall Mercantile tells of the county's funeral businesses and the families who ran them, and the Inez Hatley Hughes Research Center at 104 East Crockett holds genealogy files and archives.

Admission is by donation. The courthouse galleries are open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and are closed Sundays, Mondays, Independence Day, Thanksgiving week and winter break. Call the research center at (903) 938-2680 before you visit it.