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Bales Barn, 0.41 miles southwest of Bearden Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

Bales Barn, 0.41 miles southwest of Bearden Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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Summary

Significance: It is the lone surviving building of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century cotton farm near the rural community of Boz in western Ellis County. The building is on an 81.66-acre parcel in the Benjamin Barton Survey and it is a rare local example of a brace frame barn. It is
linked with a tenant and owner-occupied cotton farm of the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1883
Survey number: HABS TX-3383

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Turner, Walter M., Owner
Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, Owner
Bales, Mollie T., Owner
Sims, J. H., Owner
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Location

ellis county32.31784, -96.92900
Google Map of 32.3178408, -96.92900340000001
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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