Bales Barn, 0.41 miles southwest of Bearden Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Turner, Walter M., Owner
Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, Owner
Bales, Mollie T., Owner
Sims, J. H., Owner
Location
ellis county, 32.31784, -96.92900
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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