by Susan | Feb 23, 2026 | Monuments
La Villita was a Native American settlement and then a collection of jacales, for the Spanish soldiers stationed nearby at the Alamo). After a flood in 1819 washed away most of the huts, more substantial adobe houses replaced them. La Villita deteriorated into...
by Susan | Dec 22, 2025 | Monuments
“Peace Circle” depicts a meeting of Republic of Texas President Sam Houston and ten American Indian chiefs/ captains from the Delaware, Chickasaw, Waco, Tawakoni, Keechi, Caddo, Anadarko, Ioni, Biloxi and Cherokee Nations on the Grape Vine Prairie in 1843. The Peace...
by Susan | Jun 16, 2025 | Monuments
On June 19, 1865 Union General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas. Two and a half years before Granger arrived, President Abraham Lincoln had issued his Emancipation Proclamation that legally freed three and a half million enslaved people in...
by Susan | Mar 24, 2025 | Monuments
This statue by Cuauhtémoc Zamudio, a gift from our sister city of Monterrey, Mexico in 1992, was removed from HemisFair Park more than a decade ago when extensive renovations began in the park Now, it’s beautifully sited in front of the Instituto Cultural de...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2024 | Monuments
There is a traffic Island just outside the entrance to Elmendorf Lake Park on Commerce Street. It acted as a barrier to the community using the park along Apache Creek, in the shadow of Our Lady of the Lake University. This installation, “Aguas Onduladas” (Rippling...
