Did you know that an antebellum plantation is located just two miles from the Smith County line in Van Zandt County, along Highway 64? The Roseland Plantation was built by B.H. Hambrick in 1854 on a thousand acres of land that he purchased in 1852.
Roseland Plantation
Be sure to visit the Roseland Plantation website here.
Texas Historic Landmark – 1966
Burwell Hampton Hambrick (1811 – 1868)
B. H. Hambrick, along with his business partners George W. Humphrey and James M. Douglas, founded a cotton thread manufacturing factory in Tyler. The factory was located two blocks north of the town square, on low ground just a few feet west of North Broadway and a few feet north of the railroad tracks. It employed seventy workers who produced bundles of cotton thread that were sold in bales to merchants. Unfortunately, the factory was destroyed by fire in 1870.
B. H. Hambrick Sr. passed away on June 4, 1868, in Tyler, and his son, B. H. Hambrick Jr., died on December 25, 1868. A tour of the plantation was filmed for the show “JB’s Journal,” hosted by J.B. Smith.
View the video at this link JB’s Journal – Roseland plantation.