{"nrhp_refnum":"00000656","name":"Freeman Farm","other_names":["Kickapoo Farm","Freeman Plantation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rd. 323, 3 mil3s SE. of Frankston","address_restricted":false,"city":"Frankston","county":"Anderson County","state":"TX","lat":31.993730278500067,"lon":-95.49829165310369,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 114-acre family farm about three miles southeast of Frankston in Anderson County, Texas, centered on a c. 1854 Greek Revival center-passage farmhouse built by local builder Paul Heidelberg and his son, with surviving outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is significant under Criterion A in the area of Agriculture at the local level. It began as a cotton and corn plantation developed by William F. Freeman, a farmer, postmaster and county commissioner, and it represents early Anglo settlement in Anderson County. It has stayed in the same family for more than 100 years and shifted from cotton to cattle and hay as regional agriculture changed. It is also a link to the vanished community of Kickapoo.","narrative":"Three miles southeast of Frankston, this 114-acre farm in Anderson County, Texas, grew from a cotton and corn plantation established by William F. Freeman, who arrived from Alabama around 1851. Builder Paul Heidelberg and his son constructed the c. 1854 Greek Revival farmhouse from locally hewn timber and bricks fired on site. The one-story frame house has a five-bay front, gable-end chimneys and a pedimented portico with two square Doric columns. A kitchen, smokehouse, brooder house and well house also survive. Freeman ran a cotton gin and syrup mill, served as Kickapoo postmaster and as a county commissioner, and held about 3,000 acres at his death in 1892. Descendants kept the farm going, moving from cotton to cattle leasing and hay in the 1950s. In 1996 the state certified it as operated by one family for over a century. It was listed for its agricultural history and its tie to the vanished town of Kickapoo.","period_of_significance":"c.1854-1950","architect_builder":"Heidelberg, Paul and son (builder)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling and agricultural property. Hay is grown and land is leased for grazing. The farmhouse has some alterations, and several original farm structures are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.171618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/9709/40970975/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/00000656.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000656/44ccf1c86c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000656/44ccf1c86c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FreemanFarm1_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FreemanFarm1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970975","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999567"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/anderson-county/freeman-farm-00000656/"}