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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 |
