Roseland Plantation Home

Historical marker location:

Edom, Texas

( From Tyler about 11 mi. W on US 64 (on south side of road) - Burwell Hambrick / W. C. Windsor home, just west of Smith County line)

Marker installed: 1966

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.

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