Texas Czech Heritage & Cultural Center - LaGrange, TX

La Grange in historic Fayette County, the "Cradle of Czech Immigration to Texas," is the site for the Texas Czech Heritage & Cultural Center, the flagship of Czech heritage, preservation and promotion.  The Center includes a library, exhibit hall, gift shop, and a Texas Czech Village.



Bell Tower

Hoelscher Haus

Migl House



Independence, TX - Baylor Park

The beginnings of Baylor University were at Independence, TX.  It was charted on February 1, 1845.  The history is told at Baylor Park in Independence, TX.

Original location at Academy Hill

Information at Windmill Hill

George H W Bush Museum and Library, College Station, TX

The George H. W. Bush Museum and Library is located on the campus of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

 

 

 

Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site Complex, Washington, TX

Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is a complex which includes the Washington Town Site, Independence Hall, Star of the Republic Museum, Barrington Living History Farm and Fanthorp Inn.  We volunteered at the Barrington Living History Farm.

 

 

Washington Town Site

 

 

 

Independence Hall

 

A military muster was held at the park

 

Barrington Living History Farm

Barrington was the plantation home of the last President of the Republic of Texas, Anson Jones.  He lived here with his wife Mary, their four children, his sister, four sisters-in-law and five slaves.  The family home, two slave cabins, a kitchen building, smokehouse, cotton house, and barn made up Barrington Farm.

 

Family Home 

 

Parlor

 

Dining Room

 

Master Bedroom

 

Bedroom

 

Kitchen Building

 

Slave Cabins

 

Barn

 

Pineywoods Oxen

Pineywoods cattle are related to the Longhorn.  An oxen is any breed of cattle, usually a steer, that is at least four years old, has been trained to work while wearing a yoke, and provide the power and strength to move heavy loads and cultivate farmland.

 

Slim

 

  Slim and Shorty in their yoke with muzzles

 

The farm also has a couple of Longhorn

 

A bull calf, Solomon, was born on November 18

 

Some of the other animals

 

Fanthrop Inn

Fanthrop Inn is located is 17 east of Washington-on-the-Brazos.  It served as a stagecoach stop on a busy route from Houston to Springfield, and Nacogdoches to San Felipe de Austin.

 

 

 

  Notice that there are no numbers on the cards

 

Corn cob mop

 

 

Anderson, TX courthouse and hotel today