Historic site offers tours Feb. 1

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The Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site, 10510 FM 524 in Brazoria, holds public guided tours from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1, for Black History Month. 

Visitors will learn about those who were enslaved or sharecropped during the plantation and post-emancipation eras and the archaeology associated with them. The tour is included with regular site admission, and no reservation is required. 

Transferred to the Texas Historical Commission in 2007, the site consists of 92 original acres of the plantation established by Levi Jordan in 1848. The visitor center houses temporary exhibits along with archeological findings from the site over the years.

For information, call 979-798-1851. 

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