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Liendo Plantation
- Location & Contact Information
- Address: 38653 Wyatt Chapel Rd Hempstead TX USA 77445
- Telephone Number: +1-979-826-4400
- Official Website: [1]
- Overview
Liendo Plantation is an historic cotton plantation in Spanish land grant of 67,000 acres assigned to Justo Liendo, the plantations namesake. Liendo Plantation was one of Texas earliest cotton plantations. Liendo had over 300 slaves and the house was built by slave labor.Liendo was also the social center of Texas during this time, receiving and entertaining early Texas dignitaries. During the American Civil War, Liendo hosted cavalry and infantry training camps, an internment camp, and a hospital. For a brief time after the War, it served as headquarters for General George Armstrong Custer.Renowned sculptress Elisabet Ney and her husband Dr. Edmund Montgomery lived at Liendo from 1873 to 1911. She lived out her life at Liendo, commuting to her art studio in Austin . She and Dr. Montgomery are buried on the Plantation grounds.The plantation is currently privately owned by Will Detering. The main business of the plantation today is breeding and selling Red Brahman cattle, but the plantation also opens once a month for tours, can be rented for weddings and parties, and hosts an annual Civil War Weekend in November with battle reenactments.[1]
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