Dawson massacre
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The Dawson massacre, also called the Dawson expedition, was an incident in which 36 Texian militiamen were killed by Mexican soldiers on September 17, 1842 near San Antonio de Bexar. The event occurre
A plaque at Monument Hill Park marking the graves of those killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Incident.
Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites are two adjacent state historic sites managed by the Texas Historical Commission. They are located at 29.888° -96.876°, just off U.S. Route 77,
Dawson massacre
…failed Mier Expedition, were reinterred in a common tomb in a concrete vault on a bluff one mile south of La Grange. The grave site is now part of the Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites. The last Texian survivor of the massacre, Milvern Harrell, died on 10 August 1910…
The ruins of the Kreische Brewery. Decks were added for the interpretive tours.
The ruins of the historic brewery, built in the late 1860s.
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.