SA Monthly October 2016

If you and your family want to create unforgettable, new Christmas memories; see some beautiful countryside; go antiquing; and visit one of Texas’s most important historic state parks, consider a day trip to Washington on the Brazos State Historic Park and its annual Christmas on the Brazos event on Saturday, December 10, 2016. You can then brag to your friends that you stood “Where Texas Became Texas.”

Why there? It was March 2, 1836 when 59 delegates bravely met at Washington, TX to make a formal declaration of independence from Mexico. For ten years, Texas proudly existed as a separate nation. On the grounds of this 293-acre, TPWD-run state par k is Independence Hall (where the representatives met to write the declaration of independence); the Star of the Republic Museum (collections honoring the history, cultures, diversity and values of early Texans); and Barrington Living History Farm (whereinterpreters dress, talk, work and farm exactly as the earliest residents of the original farmstead did). Washington on the Brazos puts on many events throughout the year and one of their most popular is Christmas on the Brazos.

The historic Christmas traditions of Texas in the 1800s will transport you into the past through period music, craft making and artisan gift sale. The day culminates in the park’s popular Candlelight Christmas event at Barrington Living History Farm, featuring vignettes of Texian frontier festivities with music, musket firing, dancing and a candlelit tour of the farm as interpreters and an 1850s Santa recreate how that family would have enjoyed Christmas. Washington on the Brazos is located at 23400 Park Road 12, Washington, TX, 77880—approximately halfway between Brenham and Navasota, off of State Hwy. 105. From Hwy. 105, follow either FM 912 or FM 1155 to Park Road 12.

Contact office@wheretexasbecametexas.org or (936) 878-2214 for more information.