El Capote Cabin

Date: Circa 1838

Original Location: Gonzales and Guadalupe County

Building Type: One Room Cabin

Owners: Count Joseph de La Baume; Michael Erskine; Scottish-American Mortgage Compan; Judge Leroy G. Denman, a Texas Supreme Court Justice; last known occupant: Noble Collins, an African-American sharecropper

Resources about the El Capote Cabin

 Historic American Buildings Survey - Measured Drawings June 1972, May 1977

National Ranching Heritage Center - Historical Summary and Images

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