Durazno Plantation

Durazno Plantation
Nearest city Jones Creek, Texas
Coordinates 28°57′22″N 95°26′57″W / 28.95611°N 95.44917°W / 28.95611; -95.44917Coordinates: 28°57′22″N 95°26′57″W / 28.95611°N 95.44917°W / 28.95611; -95.44917
Area 129 acres (52 ha)
Built 1828 (1828)
NRHP Reference # 80004081[1]
Added to NRHP September 2, 1980

The Durazno Plantation is a historic Southern plantation near Jones Creek, Texas.

Location

It is located near Jones Creek in Brazoria County, Texas.[2]

History

In 1840, 500 acres of land was taken from the Peach Point Plantation to create the Durazno Plantation.[3] "Durazno" is Spanish for peach. The new plantation was given to William Joel Bryan (1815–1903) as dowry when he married Lavinia Perry in 1840.[3][4][5] He grew cotton and raised cattle.[6][7] After his death, it was inherited by his son Samuel Irwin Bryan, who bequeathed half to his daughter Louella Bryan Brutrus, half to his nephew, Samuel Irwin Stratton.[3]

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings since September 2, 1980.[2]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 National Register of Historic Places: Durazno Plantation
  3. 1 2 3 Mary Austin Holley, Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-1838, Austin, TexasL University of Texas Press, 1965, p. 109
  4. ↑ Raines, C. W. (1903). Year Book for Texas. Austin: Gammel Statesman, p. 35
  5. ↑ C. Allan Jones, Texas Roots: Agriculture and Rural Life Before the Civil War, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2005, p. 162
  6. ↑ Marc R. Matrana, Lost Plantations of the South, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 249
  7. ↑ Lillian Childress, "BRYAN, WILLIAM JOEL," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbrat), accessed September 09, 2014. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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