Historic Site Grand Re-Opening!

November 8th

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

Sep 2025

Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter

Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter – 09/20/2025 - 09/21/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Enslaved women and men, such as Mary, Jerry, Willis, Amy, and Charity, were an integral part of the full story of Barrington. Start your experience… Learn More>>


Fanthorp Innkeepers Training and Appreciation Event

Fanthorp Innkeepers Training and Appreciation Event – 09/26/2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Fanthorp invites all those interested in volunteer opportunities to attend this appreciation and training event. Discover the period and non-period dressed roles available and celebrate… Learn More>>


Oct 2025

White Gold: Cotton in Texas

White Gold: Cotton in Texas – 10/04/2025 - 10/05/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Selling cotton picked by those enslaved was the main source of Barrington’s income – a cash crop. This special program gives visitors the hands-on opportunity… Learn More>>


Fanthorp Inn Stagecoach Day

Fanthorp Inn Stagecoach Day – 10/10/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us on Friday Oct 10 from 10am to 4pm for a stagecoach day at the Fanthorp Inn. We'll have special activities and tours of… Learn More>>


Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter

Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter – 10/18/2025 - 10/19/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Enslaved women and men, such as Mary, Jerry, Willis, Amy, and Charity, were an integral part of the full story of Barrington. Start your experience… Learn More>>


Memento Mori: Fanthorp Funeral Practices

Memento Mori: Fanthorp Funeral Practices – 10/24/2025 - 11/02/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Come visit the inn as, we commemorate the 158th anniversary of Henry and Rachel Fanthorp’s passing. Explore the unique and peculiar ways Victorian families mourned… Learn More>>


Nov 2025

Grand Re-Opening at Washington-on-the-Brazos

Grand Re-Opening at Washington-on-the-Brazos – 11/08/2025
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site has undergone a $51 million renovation over the last two years. When re-opened on November 8, 2025, visitors will experience… Learn More>>


Dec 2025

Candlelight Christmas

Candlelight Christmas – 12/12/2025 - 12/13/2025
6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Silent Night and gunshots, festive music and solemn moments—an 1850s Texan Christmas experience! Discover the origins of some of our favorite Holiday traditions on December… Learn More>>


Feb 2026

Texas Independence Day Celebration

Texas Independence Day Celebration – 02/27/2026 - 02/28/2026
All Day

SAVE THE DATE because the Texas Independence Day Celebration is back! After two years of exciting renovations to the historic site, we are happy to… Learn More>>


 

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Wildflowers
03/01/2017 - 05/31/2017    
All Day
The park is known for more than just a steady schedule of events throughout the year—its bountiful wildflowers display in the spring also attract guests [...]
Texas Independence Day Celebration
03/04/2017 - 03/05/2017    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
All Texans (natural born, and those that got here as soon as they could) are invited to a Texas-sized 181st anniversary celebration here at Washington [...]
Stagecoach Days
03/11/2017    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Fanthorp Inn will host Stagecoach Days allowing visitors to experience what it was like to travel cross country via stagecoach and learn about the Inn’s [...]
Living History Saturday
03/18/2017    
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Travel back in time to where a nation was born in 1836. On the third Saturday of each month staff and volunteers dressed in period [...]
Hands-On-History: Wildflower Ornaments
03/18/2017    
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join museum staff on the third Saturday of each month to make crafts and toys that pioneer kids made during the Republic time. Visitors can [...]
Beasts of Burden
03/25/2017 - 03/26/2017    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Turning the fields over, after lying fallow, and plowing under green manure is a rite of spring. See our oxen and other draft animals prepare [...]
Events on 03/01/2017
Wildflowers
1 Mar 17
Washington
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Stagecoach Days
11 Mar 17
Anderson
Events on 03/18/2017
Living History Saturday
18 Mar 17
Washington
Events on 03/25/2017
Beasts of Burden
25 Mar 17
Washington

Since most events occur at least partially outside, guests should dress appropriately for the weather and uneven terrain. Programs and events are open to all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.