Bed and Breakfasts, Inns, Hotels, and Lodging in Angleton, Texas:

The Whistler Hotel was built in 1895, by Jacob and Sylvia Whistler. It stood across from the train depot at the old Chenango Plantation, called the Chenango Junction. Three trains went into the Chenango Junction. The first train, The Columbia Tap from Houston to East Columbia. Built in 1852, it carried slaves, Confederate soldiers, supplies, cotton, and sugar cane. For some two decades, the African slave trade in Texas went underground and dwindled, only to revive in the late 1850s as the plantation system in Texas expanded and demand for slaves mounted. In 1893 and 1908, two other lines . . .