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,
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.
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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
Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites
…south of La Grange, Texas. The sites sit on a sandstone bluff 200 feet above the Colorado River. Monument Hill is a memorial to the men who died in the Dawson Massacre and in the Black Bean Episode of the ill-fated Mier Expedition. Kreische Brewery’s ruins are a relic to the golden age of Texas craft brewing and…
A plaque at Monument Hill Park marking the graves of those killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Incident.