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- Plantations Past - Texas Historical Commission
At plantation sites in Texas and across the South, stories have traditionally focused on the property owners and the wealth and power they accumulated
- Varner-Hogg Plantation | Texas Historical Commission
Generations of Texas history, commerce, and entrepreneurship encapsulate Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, which tells the stories of the many families, both enslaved and not, who worked to build Texas
- The Plantation House Boutique Inn | Pflugerville, Texas
At Plantation House Boutique Inn, we offer classic Southern accommodations and delicious breakfasts on five spacious acres of Texas Hill Country And, we're just 20 minutes north of Austin Each room or suite has its very own personality, but with similar design
- List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia
This is a list of plantations and or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and de
- The Plantation at Comal Bluff - The Austin Chronicle
According to scans of faded documents generously provided by the Austin History Center, the house was commissioned by Sebron Graham Sneed in 1852, on a hill near what is now the corner of I-35
- Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site - TSHA
Varner Creek runs through the 65 66-acre park site, which features a refurbished two-story Greek Revival plantation house built around 1835 Donated to the state in 1958 by philanthropist Ima Hogg, the park is named for its first and last owners
- The Texas Hill Country Was Home to Freedmen
As part of the Confederacy, Texas was home to thousands of slaves before the war, who worked in town as domestic servants or as farm workers on plantations
- Historic 1850s plantation home near Austin rises again
The home is a recorded Texas historic landmark built in 1857; the original 2,000-acre plantation was established in 1836 Part of the historic research included getting in touch with a genealogical society of descendants of slaves who had lived there; the clients hosted a lunch where they all swapped family lore, and they are still in touch
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