KYLE — After six years of closure, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Claiborne Kyle Log House reopened its doors to community members Saturday, May 16, with a Central Texas Preservation Month Party.
According to its website, the Kyles — Claiborne and Lucy — moved to Gonzales from Mississippi, prior to settling in Kyle. The Kyles owned more than 2,000 acres of land along the Blanco River, where they raised animals and enslaved more men and women — 38 — than others in the county.
On this land, they built the four-pen dogtrot log home in 1850 for their nine children, one of whom later died. The rare building is still in its original location, which is what makes it special, shared Claiborne Kyle Log House Commission chairman Kate Johnson.
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