Texas Plantations

We have had three days of thunderstorms. So far 4 inches of rain have fallen. Some parts of Texas and Okalahoma have had flooding. We, fortunately, are high and dry.As always I have been busy crocheting dresses for my Southern Belle dolls. My latest one is Miss Ruby. Miss Ruby lived on a plantation in Canton, Texas.

Usually when the words "southern plantation" are mentioned most everyone thinks of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Virginia or Tennessee. But did you know Texas had huge plantations raising cotton, sugar cane and corn. Here’s a few of them: Dewberry Plantation (20 minutes south of Tyler), Ellersly Plantation, Liendo Plantation and Waldek Plantation. Texas seceded from the Union and became part of the Confederate States of America in March of 1861.

Till I blog again . .