Fanthorp Inn LbNA #28930 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Boots Tex  |
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| Plant date: | Feb 23, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Anderson |
| County: | Grimes |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Dream Catcher |
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| Last found: | Oct 14, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFr |
| Last edited: | Feb 23, 2007 |
**This box has been removed by park management because "a couple of folks were observed disturbing the grounds inside the cemetery". The box will not be replaced, however, the Inn and the cemetery are still worthy of your visit.**
During the early days of the Republic of Texas, stagecoaches rumbled across East Texas, Carrying passengers from one distant community to another. But passengers who were unlikely to have friends and relatives conveniently living in certain communities found overnight lodging hard to come by. Some roadside homeowners saw the need and opened their homes to the passengers. As a result, many pioneer homes evolved into some of East Texas’ best know stagecoach inns.
One such place was the Fanthorp Inn in Anderson, today maintained as a state historical park with many of its original furnishings. Henry Fanthorp, an Englishman who migrated to Texas in 1832, and his wife Rachel founded the inn in the 1840’s to serve stagecoach passengers passing the dogtrot log house he buil in 1834. The house was expanded by Fanthorp between 1848 and 1859 to accommodate more guests and soon became known as the Fanthorp Inn.
Fanthorp, a shrewd businessman, served iquor in the parlor, guaranteeing the return of the men of the community as well as traveling men. Women seldom traveled in those days. General Sam Houston, a friend of Fanthorp, was a frequent visitor, as was Anson Jones and David Anderson, for whom the town of Anderson was named. Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee are also known to have stayed in the inn.
Directions:
Anderson is the county seat of Grimes County and is located between Huntsville and College Station. The Fanthorp Inn is a Texas State Historic Site and operates like a state park. Your park pass is good here.
To the box:
When you leave the inn, walk across the road to the very small Fanthorp family cemetery. Walk through the gate and look at the markers. The most prominent one is that of Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas who died at the inn. As you go back out the gate, look to the right to a bare, multi-trunk tree. The letterbox is at the base of the tree in a crevice between the tree and the fence covered with rocks and debris.
During the early days of the Republic of Texas, stagecoaches rumbled across East Texas, Carrying passengers from one distant community to another. But passengers who were unlikely to have friends and relatives conveniently living in certain communities found overnight lodging hard to come by. Some roadside homeowners saw the need and opened their homes to the passengers. As a result, many pioneer homes evolved into some of East Texas’ best know stagecoach inns.
One such place was the Fanthorp Inn in Anderson, today maintained as a state historical park with many of its original furnishings. Henry Fanthorp, an Englishman who migrated to Texas in 1832, and his wife Rachel founded the inn in the 1840’s to serve stagecoach passengers passing the dogtrot log house he buil in 1834. The house was expanded by Fanthorp between 1848 and 1859 to accommodate more guests and soon became known as the Fanthorp Inn.
Fanthorp, a shrewd businessman, served iquor in the parlor, guaranteeing the return of the men of the community as well as traveling men. Women seldom traveled in those days. General Sam Houston, a friend of Fanthorp, was a frequent visitor, as was Anson Jones and David Anderson, for whom the town of Anderson was named. Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee are also known to have stayed in the inn.
Directions:
Anderson is the county seat of Grimes County and is located between Huntsville and College Station. The Fanthorp Inn is a Texas State Historic Site and operates like a state park. Your park pass is good here.
To the box:
When you leave the inn, walk across the road to the very small Fanthorp family cemetery. Walk through the gate and look at the markers. The most prominent one is that of Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas who died at the inn. As you go back out the gate, look to the right to a bare, multi-trunk tree. The letterbox is at the base of the tree in a crevice between the tree and the fence covered with rocks and debris.