Thursday, November 7, 2013

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

 


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