howdy and welcome to the Texas bucket
list the show that celebrates the people
places and experiences you'll only find
right here in the Lone Star State my
name is Shane McAuliffe and this week we
start things off at a historic Inn in
Anderson this old hotel has seen a heck
of a lot of history and sometimes it
happens to have a porch
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getting a great dose of Texas history is
easy to do in Grimes County and it all
centers around an old Inn that started
checking in Travelers back in 1834 we're
in Anderson Texas at Fanthorpe in a
cellar by Henry Fanthorpe Benjamin
Bumgardner took us on a tour of this
building that serves so many roles in a
very important time in Texas history for
what's a simple family or simple
structure it's been connected to so many
different things first and foremost the
mind-blowing facts about this building
that helped form a state this building
has existed in four countries
yeah there's never moved so Mexico Texas
the United States and the Confederate
States when English immigrant Henry
Fanthorpe constructed his log cabin home
he had no idea it would serve as a post
office and a voting place nor did he
know that people like Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor and ulysses s grant would
slumber under his roof so business was
good this was very good
located on la bahía Road Fanthorpe in
was a place for all sorts of people to
stop during their travels across Texas
because of its position of where it is
it has been a hub of information or it
was a hub of information to news of
annexation the news of war again with
Mexico and use of the civil war these
are things that all would have come
through here at some point this was you
know there in that room people would
have been discussing what's going on how
it's going news hopefully of loved ones
coming through you know coming back or
hopefully hearing from what's going on
there gives you an idea as to how
important place like this would be for
the community to come and get mail to
vote for people who live here to get
information from the outside world and
hotels we're on a cup a lot different
back then they surprised to see the
living conditions that they think of
being so rustic or something that would
be comfortable here but thinking again
with perspective of it's this or
sleeping the open maybe under a wagon
you kind of have a new understanding for
from what comfort would be effective
keeping it true to form to what it was
like around 1850 is what the Fanthorpe
in is fulfilling displaying what the
dining room would be like the parlor
prior to privacy and life before just
about every modern convenience you can
think of a chance to go through and see
a new perspective and an appreciation
for life as we have it now we have an
expectation for how things are but at
the time it was I mean you'd be
surprised if you woke up in the morning
there wasn't somebody else said crawl
them next to you just once again trying
to get out of out of all the elements
and out a soft place put your head now
if you thought sleeping in the same bed
with someone you might not be familiar
with makes you self-conscious imagine
the ride here
we used to fit nine people in this coach
back in their day nine people
comfortably you would have three on each
seat when you put nine people in there
now you better hope three of them are
kids
Teresa Thompson helps bring this place
to life with her lovely viewers brings
to perspective how much smaller people
were then to once a month you can get
the full experience of pulling up to the
Fanthorpe in on an old stagecoach that
is for many once a lifetime experience
it makes it a reality it puts you in an
absolute scenarios that happen pulling a
cart with four mules can be particularly
for carries twice the amount of things
that can go wrong but Teresa knows how
to sweet-talk her teeth of course I'm a
woman I'm biased I think that women deal
with mules easier than men we just have
different tactics that might come down
to having a mother's patience they're
better than my two legged kids they mind
better anyway knuck always on top of her
game teresa
takes the stagecoach down the main drag
of anderson and this ride is a bit
smoother than the one taken all those
years ago the common bus if you will
going back and forth between these towns
although you get a little bit gentler
experience and other paved roads we new
rock you get a bump in you just rock
it's not a bounce so it's awesome
the wagon makes its way through town
circling the Grimes County Courthouse
and carefully cruises back to the
Fanthorpe
that's what's enjoyable no they're
having a good time and if they can have
fun and learn a little at the same time
that's the best way to do it
experiencing a stagecoach ride along the
road riddled with the stories of Texas
makes for an incredible journey but with
a final destination like the Fanthorpe
it you'll get your fill of Lone Star
State folklore and fulfill a fine stop
on the Texas bucket list just the
reality of it and knowing that it
happened here and how they did it that's
that's awesome to me how is that similar
to what we do now how is it how is it
different and again trying to trying to
think of the unique challenges of
someone who's living in that time to
come out and get a little bit of history
have a little bit of fun meet my kids
and take a ride with me
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