Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum, Pittsburg

About Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum

Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum houses a replica of the Ezekiel Airship, reportedly flown a year before the Wright Brothers' historic flight, in its Depot Museum located in a former Texas & St. Louis Railway Company depot built between 1880 and 1885. Visitors explore two award-winning museums for one admission price: the Depot Museum, featuring artifacts from Caddo Indians, a working telegraph station, an 1894 telephone switchboard, a printing press from the late 1880s, and antique vehicles including a 1909 Studebaker Surrey and 1927 fire truck; and the Farmstead Museum, housed in the county's oldest home, displaying period furnishings and farm equipment from the 1800s and early 1900s. The museums offer self-guided and guided tours through structures where Northeast Texas history began. Located in Pittsburg, Texas, the museum charges admission with published pricing online. Pittsburg ISD students receive free admission, and children under six enter free, as listed on pittsburgtexasmuseum.org.