Editing Anderson, Texas (section)

==Arts and culture==
===Anderson Historic District===
[[File:The Harris-Martin House 1837.jpg|thumb|Harris-Martin House]]
[[File:Anderson Baptist Church.jpg|thumb|Anderson Baptist Church]]

The entire town and surrounding areas has been recognized as the Anderson Historic District, listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Grimes County, Texas|National Register of Historic Places]] in 1974. The area was originally settled during [[Spanish Texas|Spanish colonial rule]]. The town is unusual in that a large number of structures have survived that reflect the history of Texas from the [[Mexican Texas|Mexican period]] through the years of the [[Republic of Texas]] and into early statehood. Anderson has never fully recovered from economic decline suffered during the late nineteenth century. As a result, the town's appearance has been largely unchanged since the beginning of the twentieth century.<ref name=NRHP>{{Cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Anderson Historic District|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NR/pdfs/74002072/74002072.pdf|last1=Hume|first1=Gary L.|last2=Muckelroy|first2=Duncan G.|date=March 15, 1974|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>

Some buildings within the district are listed as [[Texas State Antiquities Landmark]]s or [[Recorded Texas Historic Landmark]]s.<ref name=THC-Atlas>{{Cite web|title=Texas Historic Sites Atlas|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/|author=Staff|publisher=[[Texas Historical Commission]]|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref> Sites  include:
*Allen Home, built around 1840 and first served as a girls' academy.<ref name=AllenRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Allen Home (Atlas Number 5507014266)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5507014266|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref><ref name=ThompsonRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Miss Sally Thompson School Building (Atlas Number 5185008622)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5185008622|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*Anderson Baptist Church, built between 1853 and 1855 from native stone by enslaved African-American laborers and artisans. The [[Baptist General Convention of Texas]] was organized here in 1848.<ref name=NRHP/><ref name=BaptistRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Anderson Baptist Church (Atlas Number 5185008562)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5185008562|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*Rueben Bennett House.<ref name=BennettRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Bennett, Rueben, House (Atlas Number 5507014195)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5507014195|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*H. H. Boggess House.<ref name=NRHP/>
*[[Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site]]. Held the region's first post office. In 1845, Vice President [[Kenneth Lewis Anderson]] of the Republic of Texas, after whom the town is named, died while staying at the inn. The [[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]] acquired the property in 1977 and, opened the site to the public in 1987 as a demonstration of life at a stagecoach stop and family home in 1850.<ref name=NRHP/><ref name=TPWD>{{Cite web|title=Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site: History|url=https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/fanthorp-inn/park_history|author=Staff|publisher=[[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]]|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref><ref name=FanthorpSAL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Fanthorp Inn State Historical Structure (41GM79) (Atlas Number 8200000297)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/8200000297|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*B. B. Goodrich House. Benjamin Briggs Goodrich served as a member of the [[Convention of 1836]] and signed the [[Texas Declaration of Independence]] and the [[Constitution of the Republic of Texas]].<ref name=NRHP/><ref name=GoodrichRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for B. B. Goodrich House (Atlas Number 5185008582)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5185008582|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*The Harris-Martin House. Harris followed his parents, [[John Richardson Harris|John R. Harris]] and Jane Harris, to Texas, who preceded him to found the colony of  Harrisburg, Texas (now in modern Houston).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.tx0746.sheet?st=gallery|title = Harris-Martin House, Anderson, Grimes County, TX|website = [[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>
*Grimes County Courthouse.<ref name=NRHP/><ref name=GrimesSAL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Grimes County Courthouse (Atlas Number 8200000298)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/8200000298|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref><ref name=CourthouseRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Grimes County Courthouse (Atlas Number 5185008585)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5185008585|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*Steinhagen Log Cabin.<ref name=SteinhagenRTHL>{{Cite web|title=Details for Steinhagen Log Cabin (Atlas Number 5185008617)|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5185008617|author=Staff|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
*Vernacular Palladian House.<ref name=NRHP/>