‘The heart of Austin beats here’: Juneteenth, visit city’s only intact slave quarters

‘The heart of Austin beats here’: Juneteenth, visit city’s only intact slave quarters

Two stories high, the back structure revealed few signifiers of its original employment. During the past few years, however, historian after historian has concluded that this building, which might even antedate the nearby antebellum Greek Revival mansion, once housed the enslaved workers who built the Neill-Cochran House, now a museum operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas.

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