‼️⚠️🚗PARKING UPDATE for THIS SATURDAY: In addition to the limited parking around the museum, the parking lot at Kruse Elementary will be available! We will have a shuttle and the Police will be directing traffic. The school address is 400 Park Lane, at the corner of Park Lane and South Main. Parking with a shuttle will be on the South Main side.
🦃Have a great Thanksgiving! We will be closed until Tuesday, December 3rd 🦃
📍We had fun working on shots for a new aerial view of the museum grounds! Check the comments for another neat video. 👏Thanks to our drone pilot, Brad! Stay tuned!
In December of 1986, the remaining family members of the John Edward and Gertrude Pomeroy, met with the Mayor and City council and donated the 1.66-acre, 9 city lot properties. This came along with their family homes — the Pomeroy House and Anna Pomeroy’s — house on the property. The donation included the two houses, two garages, one outhouse, and nine city lots. The donation of the property and homes was to preserve the historical importance of the property and the history of Pasadena and Texas.
🔑With two of the first “city lots” sold by Colonel John H. Burnett in his new town development located within the homestead site, downtown Pasadena began developing around the corner of Main and Sixth (now Eagle Street). Jasper F. Hays bought one of those two lots in 1893 due to his appointment as Postmaster and he located the first Post office in the front room of his new home.
🏘After Edward Payson and Anna Pomeroy and their son John survived the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, Payson moved his wife Anna Louise and their son
John Edward to the inland community of Pasadena early the next year. On the property, they found another causality of the storm…the old Jasper F. Hays house lay on its side, blown from its piers. The Pomeroy’s bought their first parcel of land to be their homestead at Main and Sixth (now Eagle) streets in April of 1901. They fixed the house and called it home until 1908. Edward Payson passed away in 1906, and Payson was working to establish a cemetery in Pasadena and out of respect for his efforts his friends rushed the completion of the project so that Edward Payson Pomeroy was the first burial in the Crown Hill Cemetery. Anna Louise received a widow’s allotment of $1081. and she had her son John build the Pomeroy House, and it was completed in 1908.
🏆Payson and Anna chose Pasadena because they saw opportunities in the young community and quickly coupled their vision with action. They began
a family history of commitment to community, and its education and religious needs.
C. David Pomeroy is an attorney, author, and nationally recognized historian. He is a 4th generation of Pasadena. His father, Clyde Pomeroy, grandfather John E. Pomeroy, and his great-grand father Edward Payson Pomeroy were all founding members of our great city…Pasadena, Texas. The Pomeroy family donated the 1.66 acres of land to the City of Pasadena in 1986 located at 204 S. Main for the preservation of their heritage. This property is now the City of Pasadena Heritage Park and Museum. We are honored to have his research in the C. David Pomeroy Collection along with the Pomeroy Collection at the Museum. We want to share various correspondence and information not only at the Museum for display, but to feature some of his research and writing’s here on our Facebook page for our citizens and members to enjoy. We want to educate you on the founding families of our museum and our city. Enjoy!
Correspondence written by C. David Pomeroy on 5-27-1992 to a request to give a three-page paragraph on the history of Texas and Pasadena. Document taken from the Heritage Park and Museum C. David Pomeroy Collection dated 5-27-1992
Although the Pasadena area had been occupied by Indians for over ten thousand years, the first settlers as we know them arrived early in the 1820’s under the sponsorship of Stephen F. Austin. William Vince built a cabin on a league of land fronting the Buffalo Bayou. Santa Anna and Sam Houston travelled through the area on their way to the battlefield at San Jacinto. The Bridge over Vince’s Bayou was destroyed by Houston’s men to prevent reinforcements from reaching the Mexican Army, and to stop any escape from the pending battle. Generalisimo Santa Anna was captured by Texian troops near the destroyed bridge, and thus the Republic of Texas was guaranteed.
John H. Burnett of Galveston purchased Vince’s property sixty-four years later and with the help of Charles R. Munger and Cora Bacon Foster, laide out the community that became Pasadena. At the time the entire area was used for cattle grazing, especially for the Allen Ranch.
