1 mi. W of San Augustine on TX 21, San Augustine, Texas. County/parish: San Augustine.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 25, 1977. NRIS 77001474.
1 contributing building.
The William Garrett Plantation is a plantation complex with a plantation house located near the town of San Augustine in San Augustine County, Texas. The house was "Texas frontier architecture" with some elements of Greek Revival and is notable for its "grandiose" scale.
The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1977.
Enslaved people built the house in 1861 with lumber from a Garrett sawmill and rock from a Garrett quarry. It faced the main road through the area, the El Camino Real-Kings Highway, and is now about .25 miles (0.40 km) away from the main road due to road realignment.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973302