Created February 12, 1848
Since 1535 men of all nations of the earth sailed
the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the green
valley of the Rio Grande in search of happiness,
and each found it in his own time and in his own way.
1535 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
1686 Alonzo de Leon, Fr. Damian Manzanet
1749 Jose de Escandon
1771 Jose Salvador de la Garza
1787 Jose Goseascochea
1794 Nicolas Balli
1818 Manuel Yturria, Cristobal Longoria, Jose Antonio Esparza
1823 Martin de Leon, Ramon Lafon
1828 Charles Stillman, James McGloin
1834 William Neale, Reuben M. Potter
1846 Zachary Taylor, George B. McClellan, Ulysses S. Grant, Mariano Arista, Mifflin Kennedy
1847 Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, Thomas J. Jackson, Stephen Powers, Richard King, John S. Ford
1849 Simon Mussina, John Young
1850 John R. Butler, Franklin Cummings, Joseph Kleiber, Francis W. Latham, Jose San Roman, Simon Celaya
1855 Edmund J. Davis,
1856 Robert E. Lee,
1859 Samuel P. Heintzelman
1863 John B. Magruder, Hamilton P. Bee
1864 Raphael Semmes
1865 Phillip H. Sheridan, Lew Wallace
1872 Richard Henry Savage, John L. Haynes
1875 Lee H. McNelly
1876 Porfirio Diaz
1878 James B. Wells
1881 William C. Gorgas, Enoch H. Crowder
Erected by the State of Texas 1936
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