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History

Brothers Bobby and Billy Bailey built the bunkhouse in the early 1970’s for their family to have an escape from the busy city.  Using only materials they could scrap together, the atmosphere is majestic and almost like taking a tour in a museum of yesterday!

Family and friends love to talk about how the bunkhouse was constructed.  All of the woodwork is from shipping crates made of lumber.  The crates were taken apart for wood and even the nails were straightened one by one.  The bricks that make up the front porch and fire place came from Greenville Avenue in Dallas Texas.  Sixteen telephone poles serve as the main support for the thirty by thirty foot bunkhouse.

See The Palestine Herald's coverage of our reopening: 
A Family Tradition:  Grandson, wife reopen The Bailey Bunkhouse

Bailey Bunkhouse | 4701 Anderson County Road 441 Palestine, Texas  75803 | 559-362-5873