Millard's Crossing - Tours, Buildings

Description of Buildings
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Burrows House (1870) Texas Medallion
(Information Center, Gift Shop and Office)
A gaming table with corner drink holders, a life-sized doll, a working lighthouse lamp and hand carved furniture are features of this country farm house. Children can draw water from the well on the back porch.
Gift Shop - There is a small gift shop which sells low-cost items that would appeal to school-aged children, cards and photos, refrigerator magnets and more.

Watkins Square Log House and Fence (1830)
A stacked log fence surrounds this log house which once protected “Mama‘s vegetable garden“ from the livestock. Rustic handmade antiques and child sized chairs are part of the furnishings of this early East Texas hand-hewn home. A large sleeping loft is furnished with a variety of beds all covered with patchwork quilts. Children get to shake the feather bed and learn about the chamber pot pushed under it.

Double Corn Crib (1830)
The Corn Crib was originally used for storing corn, an important trade item and staple of the economy. Half of the building houses early Texas farm equipment.

Millard-Lee House (1837) Texas Medallion
Built as a family home and boarding house, the Millard-Lee house is a rare East Texas example of the “two-story double house” and is furnished with a widely eclectic collection of 19th century antiques. It also houses an excellent collection of historic documents from the area. A player piano is an entertainment highlight.

Log Office (1860s)
This little log structure was built as a land office but probably had many uses over the years and is typical of the size and shape of most offices in 19th century East Texas. After the Civil War, milled lumber and bricks became more available and affordable.

Log Schoolhouse
This replicated log schoolhouse is where visitors both young and old sit down to have an old-fashioned schoolhouse lesson and is the most popular activity on the tour. It reflects the common rural practice of utilizing existing or abandoned structures for a schoolhouse which made sense for the few "short" sessions children attended. Everyone dons hats and bonnets and learn the rules of deportment for unruly behavior. Writing with quill pens are a part of each lesson.

Methodist Parsonage (1900)
Once a home for the local church minister, the parsonage is now furnished with many lovely antiques including a gorgeous antique rosewood “boudoir” grand piano made by John Broadwood. The exterior doors, windows, and moldings display typical Eastlake Victorian style.

Chapel (1905)
The white wooden chapel was built by a Free Methodist congregation and used into the 1950s. The quaint chapel is currently available as a rental facility for weddings.

Watkins Homestead (1895)
This home was built by the grandfather of Mrs. Thomas, the founder of Millard's Crossing. In those days a man showed his love for a woman by building a well porch behind the house. The covered porch prevented the woman from getting wet as she drew water from the well during rainstorms. This home has a modern kitchen and is available as a rental facility for wedding receptions, business functions and other special events.

Country Store
This structure was replicated with part of the double corn crib to form a typical mercantile store.

Caboose (Early 1900s)
This caboose was part of a train, chartered in 1905 to haul logs out of East Texas forests, that became known as the Nacogdoches and Southeastern Railroad Line. It was later owned by Frost-Johnson Lumber Company and connected to the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe lines.

Henry Millard House (Early 1900s)
This house belonged to Henry Millard and stood on North Street just north of the fire station at East Austin.

Carriage House
This structure once sat behind the old Hayter home, formerly the Hayter House Restaurant on North Street. The building now houses a wagon that hauled watermelons between Nacogdoches and Alazan and a buggy.

Sitton Dog Trot Log House (1843)
This house was originally located about five miles down CR 698 west of Central Heights. It was built by William and Susan Hayter who came to Texas in 1842. It is a large "dog trot" house with an ample sleeping loft and squared logs.

Millard's Crossing Historic Village
Open Monday - Saturday, 9:00am to 4:00pm, Sunday, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

6020 North Street (Business U.S. 59 North)
P.O. Box 634221, Nacogdoches, Texas 75963
Phone: 936-564-6631 FAX: 936-564-6631

e-mail: info@millardscrossing.com