Washington On The Brazos Historical Site

Washington On The Brazos Historical Park

Washington, TX
January 2010

This park is located about an hour hour outside of College Station.

It does not offer any camping. It's just a historical site with lots
to offer.

There are three parts to the park. The first is the Barrington
living history farm. This exhibit was where Texas's last

President, Anson Jones lived before we became a state. The house is pretty neat and there are stables with horses and livestock on the farm.

The next part is a Library that is operated by Blinn College

that is in the shape of a star. We didn't take a tour of the library

but we sure did appreciate it's unique shape.

The last part includes the log cabin building where Texas penned

it's constitution and declared it's independence. This section

also has an awesome visitor center. The visitor center has some

really neat exhibits and the kids really enjoyed the gift shop.

I could of spent all day in the visitor's center reading all of the

exhibits (almost a mini Bob Bolluck museum).

This park was a little out of the way, but I would recommend it.

If you drive it just right, you can hit the Blue Bell factory on the way back to Austin. The kids will really enjoy that!