The Durazno Plantation is a historic Southern plantation near Jones Creek, Texas.
Location It is located near Jones Creek in Brazoria County, Texas.National Register of Historic Places: Durazno Plantation
History In 1840, 500 acres of land was taken from the Peach Point Plantation to create the Durazno Plantation.Mary Austin Holley, Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-1838, Austin, TexasL University of Texas Press, 1965, p. 109 "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.Raines, C. W. (1903). Year Book for Texas. Austin: Gammel Statesman, p. 35C. Allan Jones, Texas Roots: Agriculture and Rural Life Before the Civil War, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2005, p. 162 The people he enslaved were forced to grow cotton and raise cattle.Marc R. Matrana, Lost Plantations of the South, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 249 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. 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.
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings since September 2, 1980.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brazoria County, Texas
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