F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Main House, 100 feet northwest of Old Buena Vista Road and 40 feet west of the F.L. Hawkins entrance road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX
Summary
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Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the kind of tenant farm that helped Ellis County become a major supplier of cotton in the nation during the early twentieth century.
Survey number: HABS TX-3384-A
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, Owner
Location
ellis county, 32.38653, -96.84833
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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