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TEXAS POOL FOUNDATION
Involvement in
Purpose Link to Website
Heritage Preservation
A Non-profit organized A Preservation of a https://www.texaspool.
to preserve the Texas site over 50 years org/
Pool facility old (built in 1961 on
mostly undeveloped
A Engages in outreach ranch land)
to support civic
pride and building
community

CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Involvement in
Purpose Link to Website
Heritage Preservation
A Promote the A Preserving one of https://www.
preservation and Plano’s primary types countyoffice.org/
maintenance of of heritage resources
historic cemeteries
A Tell the stories of
Plano’s early settlers
and families

PLANO AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM

Involvement in
Purpose Link to Website
Heritage Preservation
A Telling the story A Preserving and https://www.
of Plano’s early making active use of countyoffice.org/
African American historic structures -
community and the Thornton house,
preserving the the community
associated historic church and the
homes and churches chicken coop
A Telling the
story of Plano’s
African American
community from
the late 1800s/early
1900s on

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