Jefferson Christmas Open House
Jefferson Christmas Open House
Jeff Campbell
JEFFERSON- There’s a unique charming quality to the Christmas season in Jefferson, Texas. The historic homes, carriage rides and brick streets give the feeling of stepping into a Currier and Ives lithograph. This weekend folks will stroll through the Candlelight Tour of Homes, ride the Rail of Lights at the Historic Jefferson Railway and enjoy an old fashioned Christmas parade. This weekend there is also the bonus of a Christmas Open House.
JEFFERSON- In the Steamboat days, when Jefferson was a trading partner with New Orleans and Shreveport, Jefferson was a strategic outpost during the Civil War. On Big Cypress Bayou, just east of downtown, the Confederate Army established an ordnance works. The ordnance works consisted of three powder magazines (only one is still standing), barracks, a warehouse and other out buildings.
JEFFERSON- This spring Americans across the country will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corp. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corp was created as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal program.