Original Hawkins Family Home
Hawkinsville, Matagorda County, Texas
Built of cypress in the 1840s with hand-hewn foundation timbers, wooden pegs and square nails.

Pictures taken in 2009.
 


Unfortunately vandals have removed most of the inside wall boards and well as all of the bricks from the chimney and fireplace through the years. Though unfortunate, the construction techniques are more apparent without the inside walls intact.
 

Brick foundations underneath the house
 
Floor boards underneath the house
 

Downstairs wall

 
Downstairs wall

 
Front entrance from
inside
 
Downstairs wall
with inside wall
boards missing
 

Front parlor with extra
posts for support
 
Stairs

 
Side of stairs showing
construction
 

Upstairs room


 
Upstairs room with
supporting walls
without interior boards
 
Upstairs room


 
Upstairs room


 

Rafters and roof
from inside
 
Upstairs room

 
Upstairs room
looking out
over cemetery
Upstairs
construction
 

Upstairs porch
entrance from inside

 
Looking down into
the parlor from
upstairs
 
Rafters and roof
from inside

 
Inside wall boards
still intact

 


Exterior Pictures of the Plantation House

 Hawkins Family

Hawkins Family Cemetery

Rugeley-Hawkins Family Cemetery
 

 

Copyright 2004 - Present by Carol Sue Gibbs
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Created
Dec. 2, 2004		 Updated
Mar. 24, 2008
   

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