Zaner Robison Historical Museum at Royse City

Providing Future Generations a Glimpse of Royse City 1880-1960
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   The amazing rock wall is featured in the Museum - and GIANTS?

 

MUSEUM HOURS

Thursday, Friday & Saturday Noon to 4 pm -

Scout Troops, Home Schoolers and Day Care, call for Wednesday Tours

 The Zaner Robison Historical Museum Corporation is a Texas Nonprofit Corporation, 501 (c ) 3.  It's mission is to preserve, protect and promote Royse City area history from the early settlers through the economic boom of the thirties,

to the year 1960. 

ZANER ROBISON HISTORICAL MUSEUM 

Location:  

124 S. Arch, Royse City, Texas, just south of Main Street.

 

THE ROCK WALL - Manmade or Mystery?

Found in the wall, two metal rings - windows in the wall, and ancient writing.  Did this belong to the giant? See "This Month in History" story from Rockwall Success

 

This may not be as unusual as it seems. See the story about the hammer found in London, Texas.

 

 

At the old Courthouse on the Square in Rockwall you can find actual rocks from the wall. The mortar dissolves when air hits it, so you cannot see the real wall anymore.

 

 Can you find us on Arch Street in Royse City?

 

  
This interesting photograph is of a hammer found in London, Texas in similar strata. It's iron head and wooden handle are solidified in sandstone. Metallurgical studies show that it was constructed of a type of iron that could not have been made under present atmospheric conditions. It is believed that before the flood our atmosphere was compressed to approximately twice its current density, and no ultraviolet radiation.

In June 1934, the Hahn family discovered a rock, sitting loose on a ledge beside a waterfall outside of London, Texas. The site primarily consists of 75-100 million years old cretaceous rock. Noticing this weathered rock had wood protruding from it, they cracked it open, exposing the hammer head. To verify that the hammer was made of metal, they cut into one of the beveled sides with a file. The bright metal in the nick is still there, with no detectable corrosion. The unusual metallurgy is 96% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur (no carbon). Density tests indicate exceptional casting quality.

The density of the iron in a central, cross-sectional plane shows the interior metal to be very pure, with no bubbles. Modern industry cannot consistently produce iron castings with this quality. The handle eye is partially coalifed with quartz and calcite crystalline inclusions, oval shaped, and roughly 1" x 1/2".