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Ft. McKavett keeps it real with original whitewash recipe

With bucket and brush in hand, crews of employees and volunteers at Fort Mckavett recently applied a traditional whitewash to some of the site’s limestone buildings. With repeated maintenance throughout the decades, some of the structures at the Fort have stood for over 170 years. According to the official Fort McKavett State Historical Site Facebook page, the whitewash mix consists...

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