Home of Wellborn Barton

The house the plaque names is a stone building cut into a Salado hillside, and its masonry is the point. The walls are quarry-faced limestone laid as ashlar, the door sits off center, and a wing projects, which was unusual for a house of 1866. The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1983, partly for the skill of the stonework. It was built as the home of an early Salado doctor, and John Hendrickson, the contractor the plaque names, is credited as its builder.

What the plaque says

Home of Wellborn Barton Home of Wellborn Barton 1821-1883; Pioneer physician of this region. For many years a trustee of Salado College, built 1866. (John Hendrickson, Contractor) Old military road and Chisholm cattle trail passed here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 15 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 23 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 25 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.

More markers nearby

• Dodd's Creek Bridge — steps away
• Home of Orville Thomas Tyler — steps away
• Kate Crawford and Zachary Clay Taylor — 0.2 mi
• Davis Mill — 0.2 mi