Neill Cochran House Slave Quarters

Austin’s Only Intact Slave Quarters

The slave quarters building at the Neill-Cochran House Museum is the only existing, intact slave dwelling located within the city of Austin. This historic site offers a rare chance to see and experience the conditions in which enslaved people in Austin worked and lived.

Jacob Fontaine Gold Dollar Building

First Black Newspaper West of the Mississippi

This building was home to the Gold Dollar newspaper, one of the first Black newspapers west of the Mississippi. Between 1870 and 1900, it was among 48 Black-owned commercial newspapers in Texas. However, the Gold Dollar building is more than just a former newspaper office; it is the last standing structure of Wheatville, a freedom colony in Central Austin that once spanned from 24th to 26th Streets, and from Rio Grande Street to Shoal Creek

Neill Cochran House Museum

The Neill Cochran House Museum is located at 2310 San Gabriel Street in the heart of Austin. It was named after two prominent families that lived there after the Civil War, the Neills who purchased the property in 1876, and the Cochran’s, who acquired it in 1895. The home was initially commissioned by the Hill family and built in 1856 by unknown free and enslaved craftspeople under the supervision of master builder Abner Cook. Enslaved artisans crafted the primary house.