Good, Isham Jones, Homestead

This eight-and-a-half-acre homestead in northern Hays County, Texas, was once part of a larger tract settled in the early 1850s by Isham Jones Good, a Texas War for Independence veteran and early Caldwell County figure. Good was among a small group of pioneers who settled along Bear Creek. Five of the seven resources contribute to the district: a ca. 1860 one-room limestone creamery with built-in troughs for spring water, a ca. 1853 bell-shaped limestone cistern about 50 feet deep, Good's rock-walled grave from 1866, traces of an old road, and a ca. 1930 horse barn. The original family house was demolished, and a 1998 limestone ranch house and a 1999 barn and corrals are noncontributing. The hand-chiseled stonework is described as remarkable for western Hays County in the 1850s. The property was listed for its association with early settlement and for its pioneer architecture, and it retains a high degree of integrity.