Hawkins Ranch
Historic site in Texas, U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hawkins Ranch, also known as Hawkins Plantation,[1] is a historic site and currently a cattle ranch, located in Matagorda County, Texas. It was established in 1846, as a working forced-labor farm raising sugarcane using enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, the site employed paid laborers and former convicts, and by c. 1890 it become a cattle ranch.
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Location | Matagorda, Texas, U.S. |
Coordinates | 28.8331°N 95.7226°W / 28.8331; -95.7226 |
Founded | 1846; 178 years ago (1846) |
Built for | James Boyd Hawkins |
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