Historic Site Grand Re-Opening!

November 8th

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

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>>


Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter

Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter – 11/15/2025 - 11/16/2025
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 Fast Food & Stagecoach Ride

Fanthorp Fast Food & Stagecoach Ride – 11/22/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us as we prepare foods travelers might have consumed before arriving at the inn; including an early 1840s version of chili! Stagecoach rides will… 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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Focus Weekend - Cooking in the Quarter
03/05/2022 - 03/06/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Enslaved men and women, such as Jerry, Mary, Willis, and Jake, were an integral part of the full story of Barrington. Cooking a hot meal [...]
Focus Weekend - Parlor Games
03/12/2022 - 03/13/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
What games do you play on a rainy day? Victorian Texans had many imaginative games to entertain themselves without Nintendo’s, Wii’s, TVs, or computers. Play [...]
Stagecoach Days: Mail Call at the Fanthorp Inn
03/12/2022 - 03/13/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Take a ride through history and experience what travel in early Texas was truly like on our replica stagecoach (Saturday ONLY). After your journey you [...]
Special Program - Beasts of Burden
03/19/2022 - 03/20/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Turning the fields over after lying fallow is a rite of spring. Livestock trained to work, such as horses, mules, and oxen, played a vital [...]
“With haste and in confusion”; The Runaway Scrape
The Alamo has fallen! Santa Anna advances toward Washington! Take part in the flight of Texans from the advancing Mexican Army known as the Runaway [...]
Farmer's Market
03/19/2022    
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Join us under the Live Oaks at our Visitor Center to shop local and support area farmers.  Fresh vegetables, baked goods, food vendors, artisans and [...]
Focus Weekend - Spring Tonics
03/26/2022 - 03/27/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Spring has sprung- and there’s so much to do! Who has time to be sick? Many families had their own special recipes for a Spring [...]
Fanthorp Focus Weekend - Mail Call
03/26/2022 - 03/27/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Take a ride through history and experience what travel in early Texas was truly like on our replica stagecoach. After your journey you may want [...]
Special Program - Scraping and Plowing
04/02/2022 - 04/03/2022    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
We are following the cotton cultivation methods laid out by the period account of Solomon Northup, a free man who was kidnapped from Washington D.C. [...]
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Focus Weekend - Spring Tonics
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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.