Walking
Homestead Heritage - Walking Tour
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Self Guided Walking Tours
Traditional Crafts Village Gift Barn The Potter's House Heritage Furniture Restaurant & Bakery Heritage Forge Homestead Gristmill

 

Take a self guided walking tour of our traditional craft workshops and our working homestead.
The Barn—Restored after 200 years, now showcasing the work of our craftsmen
The Potter’s House—Distinctive stoneware and porcelain pottery
Heritage Furniture—Solid wood furniture made with traditional hand joinery

Homestead Gristmill—Restored 1760 gristmill where we grind fresh whole wheat flour, cornmeal and other grains
Herb Garden—Herbs, companion plants and everlasting flowers
Heritage Farm—A working homestead
Center for Essentail Education—School of Homesteading workshop facilities
Heritage Forge—Hand-forged wrought iron pieces


Restaurant & Bakery—Sandwiches, all natural barbecue, desserts and real homemade ice cream made with organic milk, cream and eggs

Guided Tours We offer guided tours of out Traditional Crafts Village and working homestead.
Please call 254-754-9600 to schedule an appointment.

Places of Interest
Homestead Heritage Furniture - A visit to our furniture woodworking workshop provides you with the unique opportunity to watch woodworking as it has been done for centuries, with traditional hand joinery. Whether building a hand-carved longleaf pine headboard, a solid mesquite armchair or a custom-designed black cherry end table, our craftsmen and their apprentices give every piece of furniture the same careful consideration.
Heritage Forge - Even before you enter the double doors of our blacksmith shop, you can hear the distinctive sound of a hammer and anvil. Watch our blacksmiths use traditional 18th century methods to hammer raw steel into a wide variety of useful and decorative ironwork, including fireplace tool sets, andirons, floor and table lamps, dinner bells, hooks and brackets, pot racks, custom-designed railings and lighting fixtures, beds, end tables and dining tables.
Potter's House - You'll enjoy watching our potters as they shape vessels of clay on the potter's wheel in this attractive workshop. At the Potter's House you'll find a wide variety of styles, clays and glazes fired in our custom-built kiln. Our distinctive line of pottery includes functional household pieces as well as a wide selection of attractive giftware.
Homestead Gristmill - In 2001, the craftsmen of Homestead Heritage carefully documented and dismantled the Teeter mill built around 1768 at Mill Creek in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and restored it in its new location in central Texas. Given a new life as Homestead Gristmill, the mill is open to the public year round, grinding fresh whole wheat flour, corn meal, and other grains much as it did over 230 years ago.
Heritage Farm - The purpose of this homestead is to demonstrate the possibility of deriving a family's food needs from a small farm and to serve as a teaching and research facility to teach homesteading and related essential skills. This working homestead consists of animal pens and corrals, pastures, a garden with 40 raised beds and a larger area that we farm with horses, a vineyard and berry patch, an orchard, a log cabin, originally built in the 1840's in Missouri and an English barn that was originally built in 1760 in New Jersey. Heritage Farm provides a context for hands-on, interactive learning on an actual working farm.

 

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