Harvest Festival

In a small town on the Texas Gulf, the Texas state capitol was born. Today, Varner-Hogg Plantation sits just a hop and a skip north of the township of West Columbia. In celebration of the plantation’s delicate part in today’s history, a harvest festival is held each fall to keep the story of the time alive.

Here at the plantation they made sugarcane. Lots and lots of sugarcane.

There were a variety of scarecrows scattered along the fields.

This was in the old stables, where the slave quarters used to be.

Cane History was very informative. Apparently, Varner-Hogg Plantation would yield around 300 barrels of Hoggs Heads per season of sugar molasses. That’s a lot of sugarcanes!

Lil Toad was riding the pony.

The three of us. Don’t you love the moss in the tress?

One of the many reasons I love DixieLand.

This is a cotton sack.

orkers at the plantation were expected to pick around ten sacks a day.

Mr. and Lil picking their own ‘cotton.’

This is what they weighed their sacks with.

Picture and caption of a Varner-Hogg Plantation worker in the cotton fields.

(Their second major crop.)