Roseland Plantation Home
Edom, Van Zandt County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built 1854 by B. H. Hambrick, from Virginia. Headquarters for 3,000-acre property. Colonial architecture. Pegged mortise and tenon construction. Joists are 48-ft. timbers. Bricks were handmade on the plantation. Site, halfway between Dallas and Shreveport, at times served as overnight stagecoach stop and change station for horses. An early-day social center. Restored in 1954 by Mrs. W. C. Windsor. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Built in 1854 by Virginia transplant B.H. Hambrick as the headquarters of a 3,000-acre plantation, Roseland rose in colonial style with pegged mortise-and-tenon joinery, 48-foot joists, and bricks handmade on site. Positioned halfway between Dallas and Shreveport, it doubled as an overnight stagecoach stop and horse-change station, becoming an early social center for the region. It was restored in 1954 and recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1966.
Why it matters
The house marks the intersection of the antebellum plantation economy and the overland stagecoach network that stitched together the pre-railroad Southwest.
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