After years of dreaming and decades of storytelling, a historic milestone is just around the corner. On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 9:30 AM, the Black Cowboy Museum will officially break ground on its brand-new, permanent home at Bates Allen Park in Fort Bend County. And the public is invited to be part of this legacy-defining celebration.
From humble beginnings in a borrowed space in Rosenberg, the museum—founded in 2017 by professional cowboy and historian Larry Callies—has grown into a cultural force, preserving the powerful, often overlooked stories of African American cowboys and cowgirls who shaped the American West.
Now, it’s riding into a bold new chapter with an 8,000-square-foot facility on more than three acres of land beside the African American Heritage Monument and historic cemeteries in Kendleton, one of Texas’s first self-governed Black communities…