Old Huling Mansion
Lampasas, Lampasas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Later the "Snap" Bean Ranch House. Built 1855 with slave labor, of native stone and cedar. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Raised in 1855 from native stone and cedar, this Lampasas landmark was built with enslaved labor in the years before the Civil War. Later known as the "Snap" Bean Ranch House, it survives as one of the area's early substantial dwellings. Its walls testify both to antebellum craftsmanship and to the coerced labor that produced it.
Why it matters
The house is a physical reminder that Texas's frontier prosperity in the 1850s rested in part on slavery, connecting the region to the national reckoning that followed.
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