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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