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Welcome to the Peters Colony Historical Society

 of Dallas County.

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Information about our next meeting:

September 5, 2025

Dear Peters Colony Historical Society members and friends,

I hope you have been having a great summer. It will soon be time for our 2025-2026 year to begin. Our first meeting will be on Monday, September 8, 2025.

This message is a notification that our meeting in September will be at a different location than usual. The Josey Ranch Lake Library location had several conflicts on September 8th for meeting room space. The officers were given the option of staying at our usual location, but on a different date or meeting on our usual date at a different library. We chose to keep our planned meeting date. Our meeting will be held at the Hebron and Josey Library, 4220 N. Josey Lane. This is about 4 miles north of Keller Springs on Josey, just north of Hebron Parkway. We have actually met at that library a time or two when there was a conflict, but it has been a few years. All of the remaining meetings for the 2025-2026 year will be at our usual library in the small Environmental room at the back of the library.

Just to confirm, our first meeting will be at 6:30 pm on Monday, September 8, 2025 at the at the Hebron and Josey Library, 4220 N. Josey Lane, Carrollton, TX.

I will send out our usual reminder message with information about the program next wee

See you soon,

Jan Jones

PCHS Corresponding Secretary

We are an organization that has worked diligently since September, 1971 to preserve the history of the Peters Colony settlers of Dallas County and their descendants. 

The Peters Colony Historical Society (PCHS) publishes a journal called Elm Fork Echoes.  It was initially published semi-annually and is now published annually.  The society has also sponsored the publication of the book Elm Fork Settlement: Farmers Branch and Carrollton which was compiled and written by Georgia Myers Ogle. It has been republished and is available for purchase from PCHSDC. 

The Peters Colony Historical Society meets on the 2nd Monday of each month from September through May (except December). The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. in Carrollton at the Josey Ranch Lake Public Library, 1700 Keller Springs Road on the southwest corner of Josey and Keller Springs.                      ...Read more....

                                                 

 

We encourage you to attend our meetings. Guests are welcome and dues which are minimal go towards preservation projects.

The Society mission and vision are:

• To arouse interest in the past, especially the history of the Carrollton, Farmers Branch, and surrounding areas.

• To collect, preserve, and disseminate historical information such as genealogies, directories, papers and pamphlets, manuscript material, relics and material objects illustrative of life, events, conditions, and activities past to present.

• Cooperation with officials, Societies or Associations in assuring the preservation of the records and archives of the community as well as preservation of historic buildings, monuments, markers, and trails.

 

Activities of the Peters Colony Historical Society

• Publication of Historical Journals

• Monthly Guest Speakers

• Participation in Local Community Programs

• Involvement with the Historical section in the Josey Ranch Lake Library

• Elm Fork Echoes � Yearly Publication that preserves facts and stories of yesteryear.
   
  Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County is a non-profit organization.

Tax deductible donations are used for the preservation of local area projects, including historical buildings, monuments, trails, markers, and the records and archives of the community.

 

See Membership Information & Constitution for more information