Historical marker off of Texas Highway west of Brazoria. The marker indicates that building materials were brought from Florida and transported up the San Bernard River.
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Professor Ken Brown gives a tour of the plantation. Students worked here excavating the slave quarters behind the house.
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The cemetery were many descendants of slaves and the Jordan family are buried is nearby. Subtle evidence of African-style burials is found there.
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A light rain approaches on the south Texas plains. The structure was built in the mid-nineteenth century by slaves.
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The landscape in back of the plantation house is dense with vines. Most of the archaeological excavation took place here where the slaves, and later sharecroppers, were quartered.
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