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The old Don Francisco Flores ranch house situated atop a hill overlooking a quiet stream is located off Texas Highway 181 three miles south of Calaveras. This large white adobe house constructed of adobe brick was remembered in 1933 by Villereal, a native of Wilson County for eighty-eight years, as an old place when he was a child. The ranch contained a church which has long since been obliterated, with only the foundation stones remaining. This house built to withstand Indian attacks was the focus of many fights, and Villereal remembered being taken there as a child to escape Indians. In 1939 a wide porch and small kitchen were added to the house, but otherwise it has remained substantially the same.