My daughter and I were stopping through Fairfield to see the state park and encountered this gem of…read morea museum that's a stone's throw from the La Quinta in Fairfield, TX. We LOVED IT! This is definitely something to do if you're in the area with your kids or on your own. The incredibly low admission fee makes this a great value, too, for the whole family since children are FREE. Adult admission is $5. Less than a cup of Starbucks, folks! The museum is open on Wed, Fri, and Saturday at the time of this review. The museum took about 2 hours or so for us to see but I can easily imagine it taking less or more time, depending on the type of museum-goer you are. Favorite highlights - the jail, the 1900s house that has all the furnishings, the telephone museum, the two log cabins with furnishings as well - the schoolroom, the old fire truck and the art car, the church with bootlegging equipment at the front. The main building also had thousands of things to see from old wedding dresses and tiny shoes to military uniforms from every major war I can think of! I also loved the old drugstore with all of the little concoctions and bottles of things with the old labels and everything. We got a great sense of Freestone County history, but it goes much farther than that. You'll walk out with a feeling like you traveled through time from the Spanish-American War, Texas Independence, Cotton, Slavery, Civil War, the Oil Industry, Railroads, Prohibition, and onward! The things you can see in the place from any of these time periods is phenomenal. This place has to be one of Texas's best-kept secrets, and I will recommend it to everyone I know who enjoys history, the great outdoors (as there is an awesome state park with camping nearby). Please don't miss it you come to Fairfield to visit or pass-through! Patricia, the curator, is also amazing, and it's obvious how much hard work she puts into the place to make it so amazing. Also, if you plan to go and you don't have cash, you can go to their website (freestonecomuseum.com) and pay online through the "Donate Online" button. We had cash on us by some miracle. But if you want to use your credit card, go to the website and use the "Donate Online" button to make your payment! The museum is a non-profit and shares its history with children in the area every year. Do not hesitate to give more than $5. This museum is the litttle museum that could, and does, in my mind! We must not forget where we were and how far we've come! Freestone County Historial Museum is one to put on the Must-Do list!

Absolutely amazing. The entrance fee is insanely cheap and there's just so much to see. Tons of…read moreauthentic donated artifacts. Must-see if you're within an hour or two of the area.

Cooper Farms is the best place to stop by after a long drive! It is a fun spot that isn't busy like…read moreother gas's stations. The store feels like walking into a family reunion with all the homemade goods that grandma brings and wine with relatives. Overall, the store felt warm. Cooper Farms had samples of their fruit wine, jams, and salsa out for those who were intrigued by the interesting flavors, like the peach salsa. My friend tried out the white peach wine and said the wine went down smoothly and had a delicious taste that could be dangerous if you are not counting how many glasses you are having. We ended up buying 3 bottles of wine ($22 but buy 2 or more get them for $20 each), a peach ice cream, and a peach milkshake for the road. Cooper Farms had stands of baked goods like pumpkin pie, pecan pie, peach cobbler, and so much more. The store opens up to multiple tables of snacks when you walk in and a jam/ salsa wall on your right. Food Review: Peach Ice Cream (5/5) I would recommend this to anyone who walks through the doors. I was expecting a sorbet peach but was surprised to taste cinnamon and a nutty flavor in my ice cream. The small portion was enough to keep me full for the rest of our roadtrip back to Houston. Peach Milkshake (5/5) The peach milkshake are for the drivers who can't active scoop and eat ice cream. The milkshake was just a blended version of the ice cream. It was a perfect to-go drink if you wanted to try their ice cream but need to focus on the road. Overall, I would love to come back here with family and have them try the ice cream. Next time, I would like to try out their baked goods. 10/10 would recommend!

What a cool little gas station!! I kept seeing ads on the way back home to houston from Dallas and…read moreby the third sign we decided we needed to make a stop and try their peach ice cream. Absolutely delicious ice cream for $4? I couldn't be happier. Also decided to grab some other goodies. They had so many soda options. I bought the peach mango salsa because they had some free samples and goodness was it tasty that I had to bring some home for myself! For $7.99 I think that's pretty reasonable. When picking out the fried pie, staff was really nice and helped me picked a pie and she recommended that I microwave the pie to make it a little warm, but it is ready to eat as is. She says she leaves it in her fridge and eats a piece day by day for up to a week! I like eating something a little sweet everyday so I'm going to take her up on that advice for sure cause I know I can't eat that whole pie in one sitting. Haven't tried the other stuff but I look forward to it. Might stop by here again on my Dallas to houston journeys !

I was on another aimless pointless ride. snaking through central texas backroads to bypass…read moredeathtrap interstates, hoping for a chance encounter with the weird, pretentious, unpredictable, diseased... or similar elements on the list of "things quintessentially texan". as i cruised this two-stoplight town's mainstreet, i was wondering whatever became of the 90s glamrock group, spacehog. but i made an immediate uturn when out of the corner of my eye flashed a sign with a singularly iconic word, evocative of life in Austin when it was home to only a few hundred thousand, when it was still hip, before came thousands of clever folks from the digital-world, before their "beemers" replaced handpainted westfalias, before progress transformed the quietly powerful "hill country" into Levittown. the word was "armadillo". I was enroute to kill a weekend at a friends ranch before a meeting in Austin the following week with a client. a well-moneyed techie had kitchen-cobbled his "Texas Woodshed BBQ Rub" only to see sales quickly death-spiral. someone referred him to me and I was soon flying to Austin. quite a production, all in hopes that pairing my experience in food development with his money might resurrect his product à la Lazarus. but the sample he sent beforehand told me immediately that despite my best efforts his amateurish product was doomed. naturally, i took his money anyway. the armadillo, misnomered a "living dinosaur," is an armor plated mammal with pea-size brain. slow moving, armadillo roadkill litters texas roads and, word has it, if grilled a freshly harvested-by-car 'dillo tastes like chicken. perhaps some truth to this because during the great depression, "hoover hogs" were the main course at more than a few texas dinners. the armadillo later reached its heyday when austin became the mecca for texas counter-culture migrants, a kind of mascot for the late 60s goings on in central texas. if you insisted on staying in texas and wanted to adopt the trappings and mind-warp thrill drugs of the day, somehow the armadillo made sense as a metaphor for hip cosmic cowboys here... backwards, out of step, eccentric, oblivious to the pace of the outside world and quaintly unique. as i passed this "armadillo emporium" the thought came that perhaps due to its remote location it might contain more than the usual garage sale goods found in such out of the way towns whose time, if ever it was, has surely passed. more even, could it be that somewhere inside this rummage sale, one might actually find the dehydrated remains of the beloved creature after which the store is named? the answer: no. mostly what is here is neither old nor interesting: handmade jewelry, pottery, macrame and other crafty goods (mostly brand named), like the stuff sold at so many country fairs, farmers markets and other events. as i left the area, i bid adios to the memory of all things armadillo, but much appreciate this armadillo emporium for reminding me of days when kozmic blues untuned the sky.

Fun store with some quirky antiques! Definitely need to go back and search through their records.read more

This review is about the program "The Trading Post" that airs from 9-10 am on KNES Texas 99. I do…read morelike the show, and listen regularly! You just never know what you will find for sale, etc. on there. However, I only gave the rating 4 stars because they "say there are rules" but they do not stick to them. I am referring to the "limit your calls to twice a week" rule. People do NOT follow this rule, and as far as I can tell, neither do the station managers. If you are going to have rules, ENFORCE them! It's not fair to those who want to call in but can't because of those who call in each and every day.