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N W Faison Home and Museum, , TX
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N W Faison Home and Museum

A historic house in Texas that preserves the stories of the Faison family and a formerly enslaved woman who later owned the home.

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About N W Faison Home and Museum

The Historic N. W. Faison House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its furnishings, artwork, and household objects convey how people lived in Texas from early settlement through the discovery of oil, with glimpses of family life from the 1870s to the early 1900s. The house reflects pioneer hardship and prosperity, race relations, and the lives of wealthy Texans during the Gilded Age. A self-guided video tour introduces former residents, including Nathaniel W. Faison, a military figure and landowner who supported the Black community after emancipation. The story of Louisiana Brown, who owned the house briefly in the early 1870s as one of the first freedwomen in the state to hold property, is also told.

  • #historic house
  • #African American history
  • #Texas history
  • #self-guided tour
  • #National Register of Historic Places

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