Thanks to a Heritage Tourism grant from the City of Austin, the Hezikiah Haskell House is now open to the public as a museum. The property is one of the few remaining structures that showcases the life of early freedman colonies post Civil War.
AUSTIN, Texas — “It’s wonderful, it’s a gift,” Clarksville Community Development Corporation President Mary Reed said. “An under-told story.”
“People are very fascinated when they learn about Clarksville, and understand its significance and the importance of this house,” Reed said. The Hezikiah Haskell House was named after a former Union army and “Buffalo Solider” that lived in the Clarksville home with his family during the 1870s and 1880s.
A historic state and city landmark, the resident along with the nearby Sweet Home Baptist Church are almost all that remains of that time period.
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