Mimosa Hall is the name of a

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in Leigh,

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. John J. Webster built Mimosa Hall in 1844. Webster, born in Alabama in 1796, the son of a revolutionary soldier, was an architect.New Page 1
/ref> Webster moved to Texas in 1839 with his wife, Miriam Webster, and their children.

History

Mimosa Hall was the first brick house in Harrison County, originally situated in the middle of of land. Enslaved people made all of the bricks and cut all of the lumber on the plantation. The

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

was primarily used for planting. The family cemetery was on the property adjoining the house. Nestled two miles (3 km) back in the woods, an old brick wall on the top of a knoll surrounds the cemetery. The original family was all buried there, and their descendants still maintain the cemetery. The American Museum in Britain has in its permanent collection a quilt made by people enslaved on the Mimosa Hall Plantation. The quilt, c. 1860, is called "The Chalice."Classic Quilts from the American Museum in Britain
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Current

Today the house sits in the middle of and is a private residence. It is registered in the

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, along with its sister home in nearby Karnack, Texas, which was the birthplace of

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. The plantation stayed in the original family until the 1980s when Douglas Blocker sold it. Mimosa Hall was then a

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for several years until its owners purchased it to use as a private residence. Image:Mimosa_Hall_property.jpg Image:Mimosa_Hall5.jpg Image:Mimosa_Hall_Road.jpg

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Mimosa Hall
from the Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University Houses completed in 1844 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Plantation houses in Texas Greek Revival houses in Texas Houses in Harrison County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Texas {{Texas-NRHP-stub

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