DUNBAR NEIGHBORHOOD

The Dunbar Heritage Festival celebrates the history and cultural importance of the Dunbar Neighborhood.

Dunbar Heritage and Museums District, a proposed multi-acre heritage and cultural tourism and economic development initiative located primarily within the Dunbar Historic District in central San Marcos. The integrated heritage tourism area would include an Eddie Durham Heritage Park and Durham Music Museum, preservation efforts in the historic Dunbar neighborhood, improvements to the Calaboose African American Museum, the preservation and restoration of the Old Hays County Jail for a Hays County History Museum, a restored Old First Baptist Church N.B.C. for community use and exhibit space, a restored blacksmith's workshop, and several additional exhibits that would include a visual recreation of "The Beat," the once vibrant commercial heart of San Marcos' African-American community.