Tolar Kitchen

Historical marker location:

Heritage Garden Village, 1 mi. W of Woodville, US 190, Woodville, Texas

( Located 1.5 mi. W of Woodville at Heritage Museum)

Marker installed: 1964

Built as home south of town 1866 by Robert Tolar. Logs cut, squared and notched on site. Has "mud cat" chimney, roof of hand-rived shakes. Converted to "cook house" where 3 meals every day were cooked over open fireplace until 1960. Pots were cooked "full" for travelers who "dropped in.".