Rabb Plantation Fresco
by Debra Martz
Title
Rabb Plantation Fresco
Artist
Debra Martz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Rabb Plantation Fresco photography by Debra Martz I first discovered the Rabb Plantation located south of Brownsville, Texas on a bird watching trip in February of 2016. The beautiful plantation home, restored in 2013, became the Visitors Center for the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On my most recent trip there, again for birds, I discovered this beautiful fresco when (pardon me) I had to use the restroom:)
A plaque on the wall gave this description of the fresco, "This room, now re-purposed as a washroom, originally opened to the kitchen and served as a pantry. During the restoration process, the fresco you see here was discovered behind wooden paneling. While not believed to be original to the house's construction in 1892, its design and style are consistent with that of the 1920s-1930s."
Sabal Palm Sanctuary occupies 557 acres of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande, which at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats.
The sanctuary is named for the Sabal Palms that lined the Rio Grande, once growing prolifically along the Rio Grande corridor. There was a great decline in the palm forest, first by early settlers who needed lumber and later by those clearing land for agriculture. This sanctuary protects the last forest of the sabal palms with beautiful trails winding through and around them.
Go for the birds, go for the Sabal Palms and go for the historical plantation!!
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April 3rd, 2017
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