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1838 Indian Trading Post 1860 Servents Quarters 1846-47 Pioneer Kitchen 1865 The Old Barn 1851 Hartzell General Store 1874 Tack Shed 1854 Frontier Home 1890 Blacksmith Shop

• McKie Playhouse, full of dolls and toys of days gone by Pre-Registered • Carriage House with a restored horse drawn hearse Group Tours Available and Pancho Villa’s Surrey Mon-Fri 9am-3:30pm • Peace Officers Museum • Outdoor Jail ADMISSION • Archives Building • Navarro County Hall of Fame Group (Pre-Registered) • Vintage Filling Station - Magnolia Oil History • Cotton Gin Scale House • GW Grant Stagecoach Student $1 Teacher/Adult $3 • Sam Roberts Museum • Markers — Monuments — Equipment For information or to schedule a tour Located in beautiful Beauford H. Jester Park 912 W. Park Avenue • Corsicana, TX 75110 903-654-4846 Deb Miller, Curator/Director